As the lifeguards prepared to end their shift, a 77-year-old Russian grandmother visiting her family in Brooklyn was having such a good time at Manhattan Beach Park she called her daughter and told her to hold off on picking her up.

“It’s breezy. It’s good weather,” Liudmila Marchenko told her daughter. “”Give me an hour.”

Minutes later, tragedy befell the beloved grandmother. Swimmers discovered her floating face down in the surf just as the lifeguards’ shifts ended that day, Aug. 11, her daughter told the Daily News.

“Between our conversation with my mom, the call and the accident, probably 15 minutes,” said Natalia Sapunkova. “People who were swimming around found my mom floating face down and called to lifeguards, but it happened at 6 o’clock, maybe 6:01 p.m., and of course, li

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