`  ==Steve Irvin DEAD== Stephen Robert Irwin  known as Crocodile Hunter dead. Irwin, 44, was killed while filming an underwater documentary off Port Douglas. At age of 44 was killed by a stingray barb through the chest on Monday while diving off Australia's northeast coast, emergency officials and witnesses said.  Irwin had been diving off his boat ``Croc One`` near Batt Reef northeast of Port Douglas. A helicopter had taken paramedics to nearby Low Isles where Irwin was taken for medical treatment but he was dead before they arrived, police said.  ``Steve was hit by a stingray in the chest,`` said local diving operator Steve Edmondson, whose Poseidon boats were out on the Great Barrier Reef when the accident occurred.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060904/people_nm/australia_irwin_dc  Official Website: http://www.crocodilehunter.com  The  ADMOINISTRATORS of Wikipedia should NOT vandalise the work of others!`