Shark attack survivors head to UN - to save sharks
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Suffolk County resident Krishna Thompson joins fellow shark attack victims to advocate on behalf of sharks at the United Nations. (Sept. 13, 2010)
Call Krishna Thompson the ultimate conservationist. Though he lost his leg in a 2001 shark attack, he has become an advocate for the predator's survival.
"We need sharks. They set the balance for the whole ocean," said Thompson, 45, a Wall Street banker originally from Westbury.
Thompson freely admits he was "in their territory" when he was swimming in the Bahamas before the attack.
"Sharks...
