


The validity of each of these is dubious, however, as they do not come from the same source. Despite this, three supposed screenshots and a portion of the video have turned up online. The footage was handed over to Queensland Police, and eventually ended up in the custody of Irwin's wife, Terri, who states that she never watched the video, and that the footage had been destroyed. He pulled the barb from his chest, and died shortly afterwards. According to colleague John Stainton, Irwin came up over the top of the stingray, and the stingray defensively thrusted its spine upward into his chest. As they were filming at the time, the deadly strike was captured on video. On September 4, 2006, Steve Irwin was fatally attacked by a stingray while filming a documentary off the coast of Australia.
