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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 3047473" data-attributes="member: 707">In the end, I think this is why he took his child with him into the croc pen.  He's a father doing what he loves, and he wanted to share that love with his child.  Like any other man with a passion, he wanted to sow that passion in his children.I don't think what he did was any more dangerous than a lot of things folks do in this world.  He felt that so long as you respect the natural world, it holds minimal danger, and despite my continual shock, he proved his point time and again by handling lethal creatures without incident.His death was similar to a pilot's death when a bird flies into his plane's turbine.  Yes, it was linked to what he did.  Naturally he wouldn't have been in a position to be stung by a stingray if he hadn't been underwater engaging the natural world as he was wont to do.  But it wasn't because of what he did.  It was an accident of the environment.  And it certainly doesn't prove that his actions are any more dangerous as a result.I say "more dangerous" because Steve never pretended that nature was completely safe.  Having watched some of his shows in the past, he was always adamant that incidents could and did happen.  One of his shows focused on a croc accident where one of his co-handlers gets bitten in the midsection by a huge croc.  It was a startling piece of film.  So Steve was certainly not trying to hide the dangers inherent in interacting with wild animals, nor was he crazy enough to believe that danger didn't exist.He knew the dangers.  He knew how to best reduce those dangers.  And he felt that what risk there was was worth it for the chance to engage the natural world.RIP Steve.  Like Elf Witch's son said, you lived a life doing what you loved.</blockquote>

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