A Story With Heart: 14-Year-Old Saved by CPR-Performing Tourist Receives Pacemaker & Bright Future By Cammy Clark January 27, 2021, 2:44 PM HST

The sun had set and darkness was arriving fast on Jan. 19 when tourist Ryan Ostrander and his wife saw a teenaged girl dragging another teenaged girl out of the water at a nearly deserted Kahana Beach in West Maui.

“It was odd, but are they playing?” Ostrander wondered until he saw a woman run to help and his wife heard cries to call 9-1-1.

From the balcony of his fifth-floor hotel room, Ostrander sprinted to the stairwell, took the steps two at time, jumped a small seawall and arrived at the beach to find the girl “basically dead.”

“No breathing. No pulse. Really scary,” Ostrander said. “The grandma was terrified.”

The heart had stopped of 14-year-old Naiya Eide, causing her to go unconscious in hip deep water. But the eighth-grader at Lāhainā Intermediate School now is looking forward to a future involving photography, traveling the world and more backflips due to the quick actions of Ostrander, her friend, her grandmother and the ambulance crew.

Wednesday morning, a week after her cardiac arrest, Naiya underwent successful surgery at Straub Medical Center in Honolulu to put in a pacemaker and defibrillator.