Search is on for mystery woman who gave drowning woman a ‘second chance at life’ at Glenelg

An Adelaide woman who nearly drowned at Glenelg beach is searching for the “kind-hearted” individual who she credits with saving her life.

Eve Kheir was caught in a rip at Glenelg Beach. She is now searching for her mystery lifesaver. Picture: Supplied

An Adelaide woman is searching for the good Samaritan who she said has “given (her) a second chance at life” after she spotted her drowning and alerted rescuers.

Eve Kheir was meditating near the breakwater at a secluded part of Glenelg beach on January 27 when she was swept out to sea by a wave.

The 45-year-old realised she was caught in a ‘dangerous” rip and spent the next three hours struggling against the current while clinging to a pole.

“I began screaming for help but it was so secluded, no one was able to hear me,” Ms Kheir said.

“I was waving at the next beach and screaming at the top of my lungs.

“I was praying to God … please send someone to help my way.”

As she began to tire, Ms Kheir said her thoughts were with her teenage son as she feared she would never see him again.

“You start accepting the fact that you are dying,” she said.

“You starting thinking about what it will be like (and) how long it will take.

“You start thinking maybe you should let go and let the ocean have its way.”

Did you save Eve Kheir? Picture: Supplied

Finally rescuers from the West Beach Surf Life Saving Club managed to save her and told her a woman, staying in a nearby hotel had seen her from her window and notified them of the unfolding situation.

While their paths briefly crossed prior to Ms Kheir’s rescue, she said she was too distressed and suffering from hypothermia to ask for her name or contact details.

“I don’t know where she is from, she may have been from somewhere else as she was staying in a hotel,” Ms Kheir said.

“I asked the Surf Life Saving club and the ambulance if they had her details but they did not.

“I would love the opportunity to thank her personally and send a token of appreciation.”

Glenelg beach. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Roy VanDerVegt

The ordeal has left Ms Kheir “battered and bruised” but the single mum who works as a radio presenter and academic said she has tried to “take out a lesson for (her) soul” from the experience.

“I can hardly sleep, it’s always in the background,” Ms Kheir said.

After spending four hours in the Royal Adelaide Hospital recovering from hypothermia, Ms Kheir realised she wanted to reconnect with the “kind-hearted” mystery woman who saved her life.

“It would mean the world to me,” she said.

Could you be Ms Kheir’s mystery hero?

The Advertiser wants to reunite Ms Kheir with her rescuer.

If you alerted rescuers to a drowning woman near the marina end of Glenelg beach on January 27 and think you could be Ms Kheir’s lifesaver please reach out to [e-mail]

Originally published as Search is on for mystery woman who gave drowning woman a ‘second chance at life’ at Glenelg