Posted on 09/08/2006 9:34:14 PM PDT by naturalman1975
STEVE Irwin's film crew secretly returned to the Queensland reef where he was killed to complete his final documentary, Ocean's Deadliest.
Irwin's longtime manager and friend John Stainton revealed on US TV today that he had asked the crew on the morning after Irwin's death if they would like to complete the documentary.
“To a man, they all said yes,” Stainton told CNN talkshow host, Larry King.
Stainton said they secretly slipped out to Batt Reef on the Great Barrier Reef, where Irwin was killed by a stingray on Monday, to shoot the final scenes of the documentary.
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Kevlar
If they show it or not it seems like a healthy mourning process.
That's the most detailed write-up of the events I've read.
A sadly appropriate title...
The sting rays were not a part of the documentary anyhow. He was shooting that on the side for his daughter's TV show.
Quite fitting
Good.
Just finishing what their friend started for him.
An act of love IMO.
I understand. The discovery channel still decides what and/or what not to show though. It's too early to tell what they'll do I think.
2. The Discovery Channel will never get that particular piece of video. As the saying goes, "possession is 9/10ths of the law".
The documentary was being shot after he died. Reading the article helps.
Irwin was 'an ordinary bloke,' dad says
He said he has seen the footage and it shows Irwin pulling the barb from his chest in his last moments.
The tape is in the possession of police as evidence for the coroner.
The Discovery Channel, which produced and aired Irwin's programs to a reported global audience of more than 200 million, said it will not show the footage.
The documentary will probably be shown. His death and all of his actions preceding it around the ray were not associated with this.
Yeah I remember now that his finding the stingray was an accident and he decicded to film it for Bindys show.
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