Love rays, Irwin widow urges
January 29, 2007 12:00

THE widow of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, killed by a stingray last year off the north Queensland coast, has urged the world to love the marine creatures.
Terri Irwin said footage of her husband's death, caused by a stingray barb piercing his chest off Port Douglas on September 4, had been destroyed.
She said Irwin would have released the footage if he had survived the attack.
``If Steve had come out the other side, I am sure he would have used it (the footage) as an educational tool. But everybody understands the rules of rays, now,'' she told the Nine Network's Today program.
``I think people should love rays. They are cute little pancakes in the ocean and their only defence is that incredible barb.''
Channel Nine will broadcast Ocean’s Deadliest, the final documentary of world-renowned animal conservationist Steve Irwin tonight at 7.30pm.
This special features an exclusive introduction by his wife Terri Irwin, and teams the Crocodile Hunter with Philippe Cousteau, grandson of famed oceanographer Jacques-Ives Cousteau.
Together, the pair investigate the dangerous creatures that have called the crystalline waters of Australia’s eastern shores home for thousands of years.
Adding his own expertise of the undersea world, Cousteau joins Irwin to uncover the truth about these unique creatures and their natural place in the ecosystem.
As they travel the Australian coastline in search deadly marine life and the experts who study it, Irwin and Cousteau track and capture saltwater crocodiles, catch venomous sea snakes, study the blue-ringed octopus and dive with great white sharks.