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The final day of Irwin's extraordinary life saw the crew chasing tiger sharks on a sandy reef off the coast of Port Douglas.
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Stainton has previously told The Daily Mail there was only one copy of the footage and it was destroyed once police were finished with it. I'm pretty sure Stainton never gave that away,' Lyons said. That footage still exists and would be tucked away. Justin Lyons and Steve Irwin (both pictured) filmed the deadliest creatures on every continent around the world for a decade before the environmentalist icon was killed by a stingray