Steve Irwin
Bob Irwin
The plane that flew our'Crocodile Hunter's' body
His Family

"There were many things that could have gone wrong,"Steve's dad, Bob Irwin said in a news conference that was broadcast live across Australia. "Steve knew the risks (of what) he was doing, and he wouldn't have wanted it any other way."

The family of Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin has turned down Australia's offer of a state funeral because, they say, he'd want to be remembered as "an ordinary bloke."

"It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here (in the chest), and he pulled it out, and the next minute he's gone," Stainton said in Cairns, the nearest city to tiny Batt Reef off Australia's far northeast coast where the accident happened.

Steve Irwin's body was returned home to Beerwah, a hamlet in southeastern Queensland on the fringe of the Outback where he lived with his wife and two young children.