April Morel, 35, had been self-isolating with her boyfriend at her father and step-mother's home in Diamond Harbour, on Banks Peninsula, in New Zealand.
On Monday, the yoga teacher left the house shortly after 1pm for a short jog through a familiar spot with the family dog, Mac.
But her family started to worry when, two hours later, she had still not returned.
Fearing his daughter may have had an accident, Ms Morel's father Don Martin phoned the police and then called a friend who had a boat.
Mr Martin and his friend searched the coastline until they found Ms Morel's body on the rocks shortly after 7pm.
'Being first on the site was quite a horrific thing. The tide was coming up quite rapidly, so I went to shore, and got her as high out of the water as I possibly could and we waited for Coastguard,' Mr Martin told stuff.nz.
The coastguard arrived fifteen minutes after Mr Martin found his daughter's body and they transferred her to Naval Point, Lyttelton.
The dog, Mac, was later found by a resident of Diamond Harbour and they looked after him until he was collected by family the following day.
Ms Morel and her American boyfriend were staying with her family during the coronavirus pandemic.
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