People around the world paid tribute to “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin on Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the Australian conservationist and television personality’s tragic death.
Irwin died on Sept. 4, 2006, after being stabbed in the heart by a giant stingray while filming on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. The 44-year-old left behind a wife, Terri, and two children.
“You’ll be my hero for my entire existence,” Irwin’s daughter, Bindi, now 18, tweeted. “I love you more than words can describe.”
Irwin’s 12-year-old son, Robert, told the Brisbane Times that he hopes to carry on his father’s legacy as a wildlife photographer.
Irwin’s manager, John Stainton, who was with him when he died, told an Australian radio station that Irwin’s “larger than life” personality was “never a put-on.”
“He burnt a hole in the fabric of our lives as he jumped through the television and grabbed you by the scruff of the neck,” Stainton said. “He had that magnetism, and there was nothing like him before.”
Actor Russell Crowe also took to Twitter to memorialize his late friend on Sunday, which also marked Father’s Day in Australia.
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