Crocodile Hunter dead.

I feel so sad!

Steve Irwin, the famous Crocodile Hunter has passed away today. And I found out that Steve and I share the same birth date, which is 22 February (year different lah, he is 44 years old).

Anyway, Steve was shooting a documentary called "The Ocean's Deadliest" for Animal Planet in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. So, while diving with the tiger sharks, his chest was pierced by a stingray barb .

The producer and director of the documentary, John Stainton said: "He had gone over the top of a stingray and a stingray's barb went up and went into his chest and put a hole into his heart."

I find it really ironic because the main character of the shoot was actually tiger sharks, not stingray. The stingray that killed him just so happened to be there only. Sigh... plus, stingrays normally (almost never) attacks. Truly bizarre.

After the incident, they rushed him back to his research vessel but failed to resuscitate him. He was pronounced dead this afternoon at 12pm.

He is survived by his wife and two children (girl 8 years old, boy 3 years old).