''Ocean's Deadliest'' is a 2007
nature documentary
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hosted by
Philippe Cousteau Jr. and
Steve Irwin
Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 19624 September 2006), known as "the Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian zookeeper, Conservation movement, conservationist, television personality, wildlife educator, and environmentalist.
Irwin grew up ar ...
. It was the final documentary made by Irwin before
his death, which occurred during filming.
Documentary
The documentary is largely filmed around Irwin's research boat, ''Croc One''. The pair filmed and sometimes even captured several deadly sea animals, including
stonefish
''Synanceia'' is a genus of Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Synanceiinae, the stonefish, which is Taxonomy (biology), classified within the Family (biology), family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfish and relatives. Stone ...
,
sea snakes
Sea snakes, or coral reef snakes, are elapid snakes that inhabit marine environments for most or all of their lives. They belong to two subfamilies, Hydrophiinae and Laticaudinae. Hydrophiinae also includes Australasian terrestrial snakes, w ...
,
great white sharks,
cone snails,
blue-ringed octopuses,
saltwater crocodiles and perhaps the world's deadliest venomous animal, the
box jellyfish
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. According to Steve Irwin, one of the specimens, a
Stokes' sea snake, was the largest he had seen.
The team of researchers harvested venom from the stonefish and some of the sea snakes.
Broadcast
The documentary aired in the United States on 21 January 2007, on
Animal Planet
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and
Discovery Channel
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It init ...
as a
simulcast
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event, followed immediately by the premiere of the tribute special ''
Crikey! What an Adventure: An Intimate Look at the Life of Steve Irwin''. It aired on 22 January in Canada, in Australia on 29 January on the
Nine Network
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, and in the United Kingdom on 15 April on
ITV1
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.
Impact of Irwin's death
Irwin's widow,
Terri
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Notable people with the name include:
*Terri Allard (born 1962), American country/folk singer/songwriter
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, stated in an interview with ''
Access Hollywood
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'' aired on 11 January 2014 that the documentary contains no footage that was shot the day he died and that the footage of his injury and death had been destroyed. Justin Lyons, a cameraman for the documentary, has said that although footage of the incident does exist, he is against its release. Cousteau filmed the remainder of the documentary weeks after Irwin's death.
Aside from a still image of Irwin with the text "In Memory of Steve," the documentary contains no mention of his death.
See also
*
List of programs broadcast by Animal Planet
References
External links
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Nine Network original programming
Television shows set in Queensland
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