I remember how the entire world was educated not to pull out ray barbs ... but it turns out this guy says there was never a barb to pull out! Along with a few other apparently wrongly reported details, I don't know what to think - disappointed?
Mr Irwin was polarising - you either loved him or loathed him, like Paul Henry, but he will be remembered a great man.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/9811310/Steve-Irwins-dying-moments-revealed