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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,...

Police responded to two reports of possible shark bites in separate locations around the same time Tuesday off the South Shore of Long Island, New York, authorities said. Police responded to two report s of possible shark bites in separate locations around the same time on the Fourth of July off the South Shore of Long Island, New York, a day after two similar incidents were report ed, authorities said. At 1:50 p.m., police responded to a report of an injured beachgoer at Quogue Village Beach in the town of Southampton, according to the Quogue Village Police Department. In that incident, a 47-year-old man was swimming in chest-deep water when he was bitten on his right knee. Although a shark was not physically observed, the bite was from a larger marine animal, police said. The man suffered severe lacerations and was taken by ambulance to Peconic Bay Medical Center to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Sharks spotted in Long Island led to the closure of several beaches in ...

A shark bit a Florida fisherman washing his hands off the side of a boat in Everglades National Park. A shark bit a Florida fisherman who was washing his hands off the side of a boat in Everglades National Park. The man reported the shark attack to officials with the National Park Service on Friday morning, and the park ranger who treated the man said that the injury “was consistent with a shark bite,” according to a statement from an official with Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks. The attack is "extremely uncommon" for the Everglades National Park according to officials. “The individual stated he had been fishing from a boat in Florida Bay and was washing his hands in the water when the bite occurred,” the statement said. ​​ In this undated file photo a Bull Shark is seen. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images Video of the attack, which a National Parks official confirmed depicts the incident reported, shows a shark leaping out of the water to bite a fisherman's hand. The...