News.com.auCrocodile Hunter Steve Irwin deadSeptember 04, 2006 02:14pmTHE Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, is dead.He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said. It is understood he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest.He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary and that's when it occured. Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas.