As Steve Irwin grappled with crocodiles, snakes and sharks he had one rule - and that was that the cameras must keep rolling. "He tells his camera crew to always be filming," his IMDb biographer Tommy Donovan said. "If he needs help he will ask for it.
Even if he is eaten by a shark or croc, the main thing he wants is that it be filmed. If he died he would be sad if no one got it on tape." Steve's wish tragically came true 14 years ago today when he was killed by a stingray in a freak accident off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
He had initially started his day looking for tiger sharks for his show, Ocean's Deadliest, but when he saw the 220lb ray lying on the ocean floor off Batt Reef, he knew it would be perfect for his eight-year-old
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