According to her daughter, Tatyana Koltunyuk credits a police officer with saving her life after she was bitten by a shark off the coast of Rockaway Beach in New York.
Recently retired Koltunyuk would take an hour-long subway ride to Rockaway Beach to go swimming most days.“She was in the water as she normally was towards the end of the day and she felt something bump into her, hard. And then she saw the shark on its belly up look at her,” said Dasha Koltunyuk. “She described looking at its eyes very vividly and just seeing it. She almost describes it as being mischievous, almost like an adolescent spirit.
Dasha Koltunyuk said her mother still vividly remembers what the shark looked like and is convinced it was a great white. Koltunyuk’s story has always been one of survival, her daughter said. After immigrating from Ukraine in the 1990s, her husband died and she became a single mother. In addition, Koltunyuk couldn't continue her previous job as a marine engineer because of the language barrier, so she was forced to find new ways to provide for her family. Most recently, she worked as a nanny.
Koltunyuk, who is still in the hospital, has undergone seven surgeries with potentially one more ahead.
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