Lyons said that within Irwin’s circle, there was a sense that Irwin would meet his end in a “weird” way. But it took professionals only seconds to look at Irwin and declare him dead. The cameraman said he would later perform CPR on Irwin for nearly an hour while the main vessel took them closer to emergency workers. “He calmly looked up at me and said, ‘I’m dying.’ And that was the last thing he said. “I was saying to him things like, ‘Think of your kids, Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on,’” he said. A crew member put pressure on the wound while he tried to calm his friend. Lyons described the frantic effort to keep Irwin alive. There, it soon became clear that Irwin was dying. Within 30 seconds, the crew had Irwin on an inflatable boat heading back to the main vessel being used on the shoot. For his part, Irwin also seemed to think the damage was limited, telling Lyons: “It punctured me lung.” His first thought was that the pair needed to get out of the water quickly, lest they start attracting sharks. Lyons said he did not realize the extent of Irwin’s injuries. That information was incorrect, Lyons said: “It didn’t come out, Steve didn’t pull it out.” This account contradicts earlier claims that Irwin had died after removing the stingray’s barb after it had become lodged in the middle of his chest. Steve was standing in a huge pool of blood.”
“It wasn’t until I panned the camera back. I didn’t even know it had caused any damage,” he said. “I panned with the camera as the stingray swam away. It all happened so quickly that Lyons did not immediately realize something had gone wrong. “It started stabbing wildly with its tail,” Lyons recalled, “hundreds of strikes within a few seconds.” Then suddenly, and without warning, the creature attacked. “I thought, ‘This is going to be a great shot,’” Lyons recalled. The pair decided to go back under water for “one last shot” of Irwin behind the stingray before it swam off into the ocean. The cameraman and Irwin shot some footage that they hoped to use for a different project, and were conferring on what they’d gotten so far.
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