A New York woman who survived a Fourth of July shark attack while swimming off a Long Island beach is speaking out for the first time.
ABC Newswhile swimming off a Long Island beach spoke out Thursday for the first time since her harrowing ordeal, telling ABC's "Good Morning America" how she struggled to free herself from the ocean predator's clenched jaws.
"It felt like something grabbed me by my thigh and I screamed my friend ... 'Something is biting me,'" Emag recalled. "I felt, you know, like I was in a trap."Lyudmila Emag appears on"Good Morning America," on July 20, 2023."I had to really struggle to ... unclench the jaw," Emag said. "I saw the blood, but I was still walking ... I knew I'm going to be fine.
Baranchuk, who told reporters at a news conference Thursday that she hadn't treated shark bites prior to that day, recalled how Emag was calm when she was brought into the hospital.
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