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On 4 September 2006, Irwin was unfortunately punctured in the chest by a stingray spine (backbone) while he was diving in deep sea at Batt Reef, which is located beside the coast of Port Douglas in north Queensland, Australia. He has a nickname “The Crocodile Hunter“. He was a famous Australian television personality, wildlife expert, and conservationist or environmental activist. He became worldwide famous with the television program The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series co-hosted with his wife Terri Irwin. Both of them co-owned and served Australia Zoo in Queensland. He was a dedicated conservationist, running a wildlife park for crocodiles and other Australian fauna; including kangaroos, koalas, and possums. He used some part of his wealth received from his Television programs to buy regions of land to use it as natural habitat for animals. In high-potential programs from Africa, America and Asia, especially his respected Australia, Irwin was always dressed in khaki shorts, shirt and heavy boots and crawled up on lions, chased and got chased by komodo dragons, and went eye-to-eye with poisonous snakes. Conservationists said that the entire world would experience the loss of Irwin, who turned a childhood love of snakes and lizards and knowledge into an idea of wildlife preservation that gained him more than 200 million television audiences. The 44-year-old Irwin was filming his own documentary, ‘Ocean’s Deadliest’ at Batt Reef, but weather had interrupted filming causing his death. Hundreds of people visited Australia Zoo to pay tribute to the expired entertainer and conservationist.