Mum pulled lifeless from the sea is brought back to life by passing medics

A BRIT mum was brought back from the dead on a holiday beach by passing medics who worked to save her for 15 minutes.

Photographer Marissa Jacobs, 43, was pulled lifeless from the sea by 12-year-old son Luca.

She had no pulse but Dr Felice Citriniti, his nurse wife, Daniela Mosca, and two other doctors refused to let her die.

They took it in turns to give CPR before she spluttered back to life.

After 15 minutes Dr Citriniti shouted, “I’ve got a pulse” to cheers from onlookers on the beach.

As Marissa recovered in hospital last night, her husband, Domenico Buonanno, 51, said: “She was a dead mother and a dead wife but she’s managed to survive.

“It’s all down to Luca being a hero getting her out of the sea and the doctors who were passing. They just wouldn’t let her go.”

The drama unfolded on an Italian beach near Catanzaro, where Marissa, her husband and their three children, were on holiday.

Marissa, from Potters Bar, Herts, got into difficulty in the sea and slipped under the waves.

Luca acted quickly to get her out of the water and raise the alarm.

By luck, the beach is popular with doctors.

Footage from the scene shows Dr Citriniti and his wife pumping her chest on the sand.

Other holidaymakers cleared away umbrellas and sun loungers so a paramedic chopper can land.

As Marissa is lifted from the floor her arm falls limply to one side.

Dr Citriniti, 60, said: “Marissa was dead, dead. It really is a miracle. She came out of the water with no pulse and she had been frothing at the mouth and nose.

“The family were distraught but we got to work and began CPR and mouth to mouth on her.

There was no pulse for 15 minutes, I was not going to let her go so I carried on and my wife and other doctors on the beach helped out.

“Eventually I shouted out, ‘I’ve got a pulse’ and she spluttered and everyone clapped and cheered but I then asked for silence so I could carry on trying to save her as the pulse kept coming and going.

“A defibrillator arrived which we used and after a few minutes we got her stabilised for the helicopter.

"It’s amazing she didn’t die but there was no way I was going to let her die, not with her husband and three lovely children there.”

Despite the medics’ heroics, hospital staff told Marissa’s husband she still might not pull through.

Property landlord Domenico said: “They said if we believed in God we should start praying because Marissa was in a really bad way.”

Fortunately, tests showed she had suffered no brain damage.

Dr Citriniti said: “I’ve seen her in hospital and she is smiling and eating.

"All going well, she can get back to her holiday in a few days.”