A UK tourist diving with friends in New Zealand days before her wedding was rescued unresponsive from the bottom of the sea yesterday.
The 49-year-old was diving with friends off Mercury Island yesterday afternoon when one of them noticed the woman struggling.
Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter spokeswoman Kerrie Spicer said the dive master retrieved the woman, who was unconscious on the sea floor.
A helicopter was sent at about 4pm, but her friends saved the woman -- who is due to marry in New Zealand on Friday -- giving her CPR in the water.