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In an ironic tragedy, Steve Irwin, popular TV figure known
as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed by a giant sting ray.
Irwin was snorkeling and was being filmed for a documentary.
He swam over a sting ray, apparently too close
for the animal's comfort, and it stabbed him in the chest
with the one foot long bony spike of its tail. He died
almost immediately.
Though this is not a global event of the kind we expect
will correlate with GCP data structure, people were
interested, so we have made an exploratory analysis, shown
in the figure below. The death occurred at about 1:00 am
GMT, and the news was on the airwaves a couple of hours
later. The figure shows an hour before the attack, which is
marked, and 11 hours following, during which the news spread
widely. There is no obvious pattern of reaction, although
the downward trend beginning at about 7:00 am GMT is pretty
steady. (And it continues for several more hours.)
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