Woman Who Nearly Drowned In Ocean Off Point Pleasant Beach Expected To Make Full Recovery

BRICK – Dishita Pandya doesn't remember anything after she entered the rough surf on an unguarded beach in Point Pleasant Beach last weekend.

She doesn't remember that her heart stopped, that she was face down in the choppy surf, that Matt Kalafat plunged into the water and pulled her to shore or that first responders worked frantically to revive her, according to app.com.

Pandya, 26, a doctor from India who is finishing her American medical residency at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, is thankful Kalafat and doctors were able to bring her back.

Pandya was submerged at least several inches by the time Kalafat got to her.

“When I was bringing her back in, the combination of the undertow and the waves, one pushing and one pulling, destroyed me," he said.Totally flipped me over. As I’m underwater, I’m thinking ‘I lost her. She’s back out there.’”
When Pandya woke up, she wanted to meet her rescuers. She met with Kalafat and Scott McLaren, an EMT who assisted at the scene.

All three believe that something or someone put them in the right place at the right time.

Pandya, who was discharged Wednesday, is expected to make a full recovery.

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