Wedding anniversary man fought off shark during attack
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:58 pm
08/04/01 Freeport Bahamas
Wedding anniversary man fought off shark during attack
A Wall Street banker beat off a shark as it attacked him before swimming back to shore using only one leg.
Before Krishna Thompson passed out on the Bahamian beach, he wrote his hotel room number in the sand so that he could be identified.
Mr Thompson, who is now at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, after having his left leg amputated just below the knee, was on a wedding anniversary holiday.
He had been swimming alone when the shark attacked him off the coast of Freeport, Grand Bahama.
His wife of 10 years Ave Maria Thompson said: "He kept punching and punching. He has cuts on his hands because of that. He is so brave. To fight off a shark and then think to do that."
Wedding anniversary man fought off shark during attack
A Wall Street banker beat off a shark as it attacked him before swimming back to shore using only one leg.
Before Krishna Thompson passed out on the Bahamian beach, he wrote his hotel room number in the sand so that he could be identified.
Mr Thompson, who is now at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, after having his left leg amputated just below the knee, was on a wedding anniversary holiday.
He had been swimming alone when the shark attacked him off the coast of Freeport, Grand Bahama.
His wife of 10 years Ave Maria Thompson said: "He kept punching and punching. He has cuts on his hands because of that. He is so brave. To fight off a shark and then think to do that."