Steve Irwin's dad is sad and angered after cameraman revealed the Crocodile Hunter's last words

Cameraman Justin Lyons wept on TV as he told how Irwin battled to stay alive and quietly said: “I am dying"

The dad of ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin has told how he was “sad and angered” after the camerman who filmed his son’s death revealed his last moments of life.
Australian wildlife expert Irwin, 44, shot to worldwide fame for his exploits with crocodiles, sharks and snakes.
When he was killed after a stingray barb pierced his chest, while he was filming a documentary. in 2006, there was an unwritten pact to not revealing his last moments.

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Terri Irwin, wife of Australian environmentalist and television personality Steve Irwin, sits with daughter Bindi, son Bob and Steve's father Bob

But cameraman Justin Lyons wept on Australian TV as he told how Irwin battled to stay alive as they tried to race him to shore.
He told how he was in the water with Ir


win on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef when he was stabbed by a stingray ‘hundreds of times’, and the final deadly blow which punctured his heart.
As they tried to reach land by motorboat, he kept telling Irwin to “think of your kids “think of your wife”.
Irwin looked back up at him, Lyons revealed, and quietly said: “I am dying.”

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Aussie adventurer Steve Irwin, aka The Crocodile Hunter

But the wildlife presenter 's father Bob, said yesterday: “I personally felt very sad and to a degree angry about what Justin had to say.
“For a lot of people trying to get on with their lives without Steve, it wasn’t something that helped by any means,”
Lyons revealed Irwin’s last moment when the sting ray used it’s wings to prop itself up to stab him with it’s poisonous tail.
“All of a sudden it propped on its front and started stabbing wildly with its tail, hundreds of strikes in a few seconds,’ Mr Lyons said.

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Bob Irwin, father of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin

Lyons said he did not realise anything was wrong with his friend at first, as he was filming the stingray swim away.
“It wasn’t until I panned the camera back and saw that Steve was standing in a huge pool of blood that I realised something had gone wrong.’



He managed to get the injured wildlife expert back onto the boat, where he saw the extent of his injuries.
He said the stingray had a ‘jagged barb’ which ‘went through his chest