Shark Attack Survivors Saving Sharks

Mike Coots surfing after attack 12 years earlier, courtesy of Mike Coots

Mike Coots surfing after attack 12 years earlier, courtesy of Mike Coots

Now that title is something to behold is it not? Shark victims (not just one but quite a few) are standing up to save sharks in Washington D.C. The very people who have the right to fear the impeccable creatures that Discovery Channel portrays as being bloodthirsty eating machines. But in fact they are doing the opposite, they are trying to save the world’s top predator. They are helping Congress to realize that the sharks in our oceans don’t have a fighting chance unless we stand up for them.

One of the survivors: “It’s like a massacre,” Coots said by phone from his Washington, D.C., hotel room. “To kill off that many animals that quickly, it’s completely devastating to the ecosystem.”

Read more of what Mike Coots has to say here