

Stainton had even tried to have Ocean’s Deadliest canned before the crew travelled to Australia’s northeast coast, and when he was unsuccessful, underwent a series of medical tests and prepared a will.


Speaking to ’s new daily news podcast, I’ve Got News For Yo u, producer John Stainton - who was behind The Crocodile Hunter TV show and spent 15 years travelling the world with Irwin - said he “felt uncomfortable” about the underwater documentary project from the beginning due to a deep sense of foreboding that he was going to die. A close friend of Steve Irwin’s who was there the day he died has shared the eerie lead-up to the trip that took the Croc Hunter’s life, revealing he “tried to stop” the production during which Irwin was stung and killed by a stingray from going ahead.
