There was only one copy, the original tape-no other copies were made. Steve Irwin’s best mate has revealed why he destroyed every piece of footage of the Crocodile Hunter’s death amid claims the footage has been leaked online. It was not pleasant.” Despite rumors there are multiple versions of the tape, Stainton insisted “everything was destroyed.

advertisement Now Steve Irwin was, and still is, Australia’s national treasure. via Getty Images Scroll down for the full story. advertisement Despite Irwin allegedly wanting the world to see the tape. “It was something that none of the family-nobody-wanted to see. Australia’s most loved wildlife expert Steve Irwin tragically died back in 2006, but the footage of his death has never aired.

“I remember seeing it in the police rooms in Cairns,” Stainton said. But it turns out the footage will never see the light of day, according to Irwin’s manager, John Stainton, who told the Daily Mail Australia that the only footage of the incident was destroyed after it was reviewed by police. At the time of his death there was much speculation over whether the footage would air because Irwin “tells his camera crew to always be filming,” Tommy Donovan, Irwin’s biographer, said at the time. 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. This is a FAKE video since the footage is actually ME from my Cayman Islands. Irwin died after he was stung by a stingray while filming the series Ocean’s Deadliest off the Great Barrier Reef in 2006. footage of the stingray attack that led to Steve Irwins death. 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.

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