Steves cameraman Justin Lyon, who witnessed the wildlife expert being fatally. 'The stingray attack, the CPR and medical efforts were all captured on film. Steve Irwin died while filming a documentary on the ocean’s deadliest creatures on the Gold Coast in 2006. The anniversary of Irwin's death was on Monday, but the footage has still never been made public, largely thanks. 'Steve had this rule that no matter who was injured we had to keep filming,' he said. Tape showing Steve Irwin's death remains a mystery 16 years after the incident. Once back on Croc One, a second camerman took over so Justin could give Steve mouth-to-mouth - something he continued to do for an entire hour until paramedics took one look at him and declared him dead. Perhaps knowing his injuries were far more serious than suspected, the cameras even caught the heartbreaking moment Steve turned to Justin and calmly said, 'I'm dying.' Those would be his last words.
'As we're motoring back I'm screaming at one of the other crew in the boat to put their hand over the wound and we're saying to him things like, 'Think of your kids, Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on.'' Even if we'd been able to get him into an emergency ward at that moment we probably wouldn't have been able to save him because the damage to his heart was massive,' Justin said.
Steve died in a freak accident 14 years ago today
