Meet Katarina Zarutskie, an Instagram model and nursing student at the University of Miami:
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Katarina was on a recent vacation with her family to the Bahamas and thought it would be fun to swim with some nurse sharks near a marina:
The teen is an Instagram model and wanted photos swimming with sharks. She didn't realize it was feeding time. https://t.co/q4xJLs2zB8
— WTHR.com (@WTHRcom) July 10, 2018
Katarina grew up in California which somehow made her an expert on sharks so she thought everything would be fine:
An Instagram Model Was Attacked By A Shark While Trying To Get A Pretty Beach Pic – BuzzFeed News
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An Instagram Model Was Attacked By A Shark While Trying To Get A Pretty Beach Pic
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Katarina Zarutskie is a 19-year-old college … https://t.co/4orFqRevS0— Ayubi (@Shikai32) July 11, 2018
She later told interviewers, “I am so fortunate that I still have my arm and my life”:
"I am so fortunate that I still have my arm and my life." Katarina Zarutskie, a 19-year-old student and Instagram model, had been swimming with nurse sharks when one bit her arm and started to drag her under the water. https://t.co/IxVexBmaNe
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 10, 2018
And she told “Good Morning America” that she just wanted to “connect with nature”:
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"I saw it as an opportunity…to connect with nature." Instagram star Katarina Zarutskie was dragged underwater while swimming above a school of nurse sharks for a photo: https://t.co/hOA4cYZxGS@LinseyDavis has the story from Times Square. pic.twitter.com/sxoTeMFKxK
— Good Morning America (@GMA) July 11, 2018
Of course she chronicled the whole thing on Instagram where she said she wasn’t blaming the shark and “not throwing them under the bus”:
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— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) July 11, 2018
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