Tourist dies while swimming with dolphins

File photo. Mark Mitchell

An American tourist died while swimming with dolphins in the Marlborough Sounds this morning.

The 27-year-old woman was on a Dolphin Watch EcoTours trip with her husband and mother-in-law, Senior Constable Brett Parkinson of Picton police told the Marlborough Express newspaper.

She was found face down in the water after jumping in the Tory Channel with a group of swimmers.

Emergency services were called at 11.20am and a coast guard vessel with a paramedic on board met the tourist boat at Waikawa Marina, near Picton.

Attempts to revive the woman were unsuccessful, police said.

Police and Maritime New Zealand were investigating.

- NZPA