<p>This is the moment a holidaymaker smashed into jagged rocks during a 40ft cliff dive leaving her fighting for her life - but miraculously survived.</p><p>Jamie Brotsky, 29, joined fellow backpackers to jump from high rocks into the sea in the Liguria region of Italy. </p><p>But the backpacker "hesitated" and didn't leap out far enough - causing her to repeatedly smash into the rockface before she plummeted into the water.</p><p>The heart-stopping accident was captured on camera by another traveller. </p><p>Pre-school teacher Jamie shattered both heels and fractured a vertebra in her spine, and medics spent nine hours in theatre battling to save her left foot which "split" in half.</p><p>Her family forked out $20,000 to fly her home to Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where her foot turned black thanks to an infection from the water,</p><p>It forced surgeons to perform a partial amputation - cutting away parts of her foot - and rebuild it using muscle and skin from her legs.</p><p>Miraculously, despite being warned she might never walk again, she has made a full recovery.</p><p>She even did a cliff jump in Hawaii recently.</p><p>Jamie, preschool teacher, from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, said: “I knew the minute I jumped that I’d made a mistake. </p><p>“I remember looking at my foot and it was completely destroyed. </p><p>"I didn't know if I'd walk again but I vowed to give it my all and try.</p><p>"I felt bless beyond belief to not have been paralysed or dead and this foot is just one reminder of that."</p>
