Long Island shark bite survivor describes attack: 'I was in a trap'
A Brooklyn woman said she was able to release a shark's mouth from her leg while she was swimming on the Fourth of July off a Long Island beach. A New York woman who survived a Fourth of July shark attack while 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. Lyudmila Emag, 47, of Brooklyn, told "GMA" how she was able to get her hands inside a shark 's mouth and pry herself free after it bit her upper thigh and groin while she was swimming off Fire Island. "It felt like something grabbed me by my thigh and I screamed (to) my friend ... 'Something is biting me,'" Emag recalled. "I felt, you know, like I was in a trap." Emag said that as the shark's razor-sharp teeth dug into her leg, she began to fight back. Lyudmila Emag appears on "Good Morning America,...