He said he always looked back at that day as being a tragedy. However, he declined out of respect to the Irwin family. Mr McNab said he had received offers to appear on US talk shows to share his experience in the days immediately following Irwin’s death.
The footage of Irwin being struck by the stingray’s barb has never seen the light of day and is believed to have been destroyed. “It was very hard on the crew, as you can imagine.” “They were very appreciative of any small assistance that any of us that weren’t directly involved could lend.
“I’ve always wanted to say to his family how well and professionally his crew on the boat had responded,” he said. Mr McNab said everyone tried everything humanly possible to resuscitate Irwin. Irwin was pronounced dead at 12.53pm and his body was flown to Cairns.
They continued until doctors and paramedics soon arrived via helicopter from Cairns. The dive industry veteran of 20 years helped take Irwin to the island’s boat shed, where he was laid on to a rubber mat.Ī small group of strangers, including a holidaying nurse who was on the island, performed CPR and used a mobile defibrillator to try to revive him. “And then that was the time when I looked down and I saw khaki shorts, and thought ‘oh, that is Steve Irwin. I said ‘Steve-effing-who’, and he said ‘Steve Irwin’. “I asked him ‘who told you’, and he said ‘Steve’. “Then I swore at him and told him what I thought of that. “I thought it was quite inappropriate, so I just simply told him to remove the camera and he said he was told to keep filming,” he said. Mr McNab helped carry Irwin off the boat and did not realise who he was until he noticed a cameraman filming the whole scene. Sailaway Reef and Island Tours skipper Alex McNab was at Low Isles with a group of about 50 tourists, mostly divers, when the Australian TV star was rushed to the island for first aid just before midday. The famous conservationist had just started working with his crew on a documentary series, Ocean’s Deadliest. Irwin, 44, was fatally stabbed in the chest by the barb from a bull ray while filming and swimming with a group of the rays at Batt Reef near Low Isles. STEVE Irwin asked his cameraman to keep filming the whole time after he was pierced in the chest by a stingray, thinking it would make great television.Ī Port Douglas tour operator, who was present when The Crocodile Hunter died on September 4, 2006, has spoken for the first time about the tragic circumstances surrounding the much-loved wildlife warrior’s death.
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