Bah, we've been gifted with the age of information... I mean, just look at Wikipedia; yet many of you fail to use it.
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... marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead."
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Cropp said Irwin had accidentally boxed in the animal.
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As of 1996, only seventeen worldwide fatalities had been recorded due to stingrays, and the attack on Irwin is believed to be the only fatality from a stingray ever captured on film.
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