She could not see the tall Caucasian man in a swimming trunk who whisked her onto his shoulder and then run up to the hill at Phi Phi Island on the fateful morning of Christmas Day in 2004. “He just saved my life,” now Sarintra Chamnansong, 15, got to live until today to recount what happened to her that day when she was only 4 years old playing at a beach front in the southern island’s beach.