Irwin is believed to pull the stingray’s barb from his chest, but shortly afterward he loses consciousness and dies over Batt Reef, off the coast of Port Douglas. The incident was captured on camera and purportedly shows the moment the ray mistakes Irwin for a predatory shark and punctures him through his heart. Irwin died after he was stung by a stingray while filming the series Ocean’s Deadliest off the Great Barrier Reef in 2006. The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Steve Irwin’s “death tape” has been answered after questions re-emerged on the anniversary of his passing earlier this month.
