Stefan said: ‘I didn’t realise Steve was on the other boat at first, I just knew we had to take this researcher across there because they were filming puffer fish. They were heading out when a researcher asked for a lift so he could meet up with Steve and his crew at sea. The footage, taken on September 3, 2006, was shot from a small boat which Mr Hill and his dad had chartered on the Great Barrier Reef. ‘I had nightmares for some time afterwards because I kept thinking we were so close and something could have happened to us.’ ‘It has been almost eight years since the accident and I finally have emotional distance from it. ‘I spoke to him very briefly about what he was doing and told him I really admired and enjoyed his work. ‘He looked quite happy on the day, nothing seemed to be bothering him. ‘I suddenly realised this meant that I probably had the last video of him before he died.
Speaking last week the Irwin family said they had deleted or destroyed all the footage they had of Steve’s final moments on the boat. Irwin, 44, who was famed for his daring stunts with dangerous animals, was stabbed hundreds of times by the giant stingray as he made a documentary. The last-remaining footage of Steve Irwin’s final moments has emerged – with the ‘Crocodile Hunter’ giving a poignant ‘OK’ sign hours before an eight foot-wide stingray killed him.The clip shows the popular Australian naturalist in a small dinghy on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef close to the spot where he died on September 4, 2006.īritish tourist Steffen Hill, who accidentally met the star while he was on holiday Down Under, shot the video and has confessed he had nightmares for some time after Mr Irwin’s death.
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