QUOTE(http://channels.netscape.ca/entertainment/article.adp?id=20060904140409990006)
Simon Pierce of Queensland University's School of Biological Sciences said there were no accurate records of stingray deaths, but estimated there had been about 30 worldwide in recent years.
huh, just estimated. not fact
QUOTE(http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-09-05-irwin-mourned_x.htm)
From Youtube.com to the Animal Planet's website, youngsters paid homage to Irwin. Smith says the most poignant post on Animal Planet came from a mother of a 5-year-old Maryland boy who said, "I guess God needed someone in heaven to help with the animals."
lol??
QUOTE(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090400466.html)
He was following a fleet of stingrays when one turned on him and fatally struck, an extraordinarily rare action. In the past decade, 17 deaths worldwide were the direct result of stingray barb injuries, according to Surf Life Saving Australia, a beach-safety resource organization. The poisonous spine at the top of the ray's whiplike tail can tense and strike if the sea creature feels threatened, but the jab from the 10-inch barb seldom is fatal. Footage of the incident, which police seized, shows the animal turning and hitting Irwin, who immediately collapses in the water, according to The Australian newspaper.
in the last decade, it says.. so more than 17...
QUOTE(http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0 @ 20867,20355112-601,00.html)
Surf Lifesavers national marine stinger adviser Lisa-Ann Gershwin said there had only been 17 fatal stingray attacks worldwide.
17 again..
everything else i see, says 17 deaths.. so i guess thats it. I saw 30 from a small "quick news" at a restaurant..