Refuting speculation that Irwin provoked the ray, Lyons said he was to film a final shot of the stingray swimming away from Irwin when the unfortunate happened. "I was saying to him things like 'think of your kids Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on', and he calmly looked up at me and said 'I'm dying' and that was the last thing he said." Lyons said that Irwin was stabbed hundreds of times by a giant stingray which they came across while finding something to film in chest-high water. Lyons revealed Irwin's final words during an interview on Network Ten's morning show Studio 10, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Irwin, nicknamed the Crocodile Hunter, was killed in September 2006 when the serrated barb of a stingray's tail pierced his heart in shallow water at Batt Reef in north Queensland. Irwin's camerman and diving partner Justin Lyons revealed the wildlife expert said simply 'I'm dying' before passing away. Seven years after the death of Steve Irwin, the cameraman who filmed the tragic incident has revealed his final words for the first time. Australia's 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin poses with three pure bred Sumatran tiger cubs at Mogo Zoo, south of Sydney April 27, 2004.
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