Stop croc water swimming: coroner
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THE public still did not appreciate how frighteningly dangerous crocodiles were, even after the fatal mauling of a German tourist two years ago, a coroner said today.
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A coroner has agreed to a request from the US authorities not to show in public a videotape of a British soldier being killed in a &quot;friendly fire&quot; incident in Iraq.
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SYDNEY, Australia  - Fatally injured by a   stingray, Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin pulled its   serrated barb out of his chest before losing consciousness and   dying, the world-famous naturalist's manager said on Tuesday.
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Â· Fall in water levels grants reprieve to stricken areas  Â· Body of woman in river takes death toll to seven.
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&quot;Crocodile Hunter&quot; Steve Irwin pulled a stingray barb out of his chest moments before he died, a witness said after watching film of the freak attack that killed the wildlife daredevil.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jan. 30--Federal wildlife officials have halted review of a $110 million water project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, effectively sending planners back to the drafting table on a project they considered vital to water quality.
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By Jennifer Mooney Piedra, The Miami Herald  Sep. 13--A construction worker who fell 20 feet into a tank at a water treatment plant in Pompano Beach is being treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.
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DARWIN, Australia - The skills of Crocodile Dundee were not needed. The reptile was placid and sick, but in the wrong place.  A three-foot saltwater crocodile ended up in a public swimming pool in the tropical Australian city of Darwin.
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - A valve on a truck hauling animal waste from a Klamath Falls processing plant broke, spilling 4,000 pounds of pig blood. A biohazards cleaning company from Prineville was called in to clean up about 200 feet of roadway flooded by the blood.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor Charlie Crist said on Friday he will halt executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.
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World-renowned Australian &quot;crocodile hunter&quot; and television environmentalist Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray on the famed Great Barrier Reef, police said.
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Â·  Sounding alert would have saved three lives, says QCÂ·  Hypothermia killed men after hours in water
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Even for healthy people, swimming can lead to an accumulation of fluid in the lungs, called pulmonary edema.
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By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 14--MELBOURNE -- The state wildlife commission voted Wednesday to stop issuing permits to developers to bury gopher tortoises alive, ending a 16-year policy that had been criticized as both cruel and a cause of the species' decline.
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Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed Monday by a stingray barb during a diving expedition, Australian media reported. He was 44.
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By Jason Lowell, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Sep. 13--KEY WEST -- The Monroe County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday identified the diver found drowned over the weekend, apparently after spearing a giant fish and becoming tangled in a line underwater.