"The stingray attack, the CPR and medical efforts were all captured on film. "Steve had this rule that no matter who was injured we had to keep filming," he said. Once back on Croc One, a second camerman took over so Justin could give Steve mouth-to-mouth - something he continued to do for an entire hour until paramedics took one look at him and declared him dead. In the years following Irwins death, a handful of alleged pieces of footage (in the form of both videos and screenshots) have shown up online, although their validity has never been proven and they are generally accepted as having been either fabricated or taken out of context. Perhaps knowing his injuries were far more serious than suspected, the cameras even caught the heartbreaking moment Steve turned to Justin and calmly said, "I'm dying." Those would be his last words. "As we're motoring back I'm screaming at one of the other crew in the boat to put their hand over the wound and we're saying to him things like, 'Think of your kids, Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on.'" Even if we'd been able to get him into an emergency ward at that moment we probably wouldn't have been able to save him because the damage to his heart was massive," Justin said. According to Irwin’s longtime filming partner, Justin Lyons, an 8-foot-wide stingray propped up on its front and started stabbing wildly in Irwin’s chest, which resulted in his death. Steve died in a freak accident 14 years ago today The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, died in September 2006, while filming footage for the documentary Ocean’s Deadliest.
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