The 28-year-old woman was having sex with a British man on a bathroom sink aboard the yacht when the sink broke, severing her hand when she fell, the Croatian Times reported.
Police from the island of Hvar said the woman's hand was
reattached during a six hour operation by surgeons in Split.
"It appears they were engaged in a passionate act in the bathroom where at some stage the sink broke -- leaving a jagged edge
that severed the woman's hand when she fell to the floor," police spokesman Kraljevic Gudelj said.
"The young woman almost died, and was only saved after she was airlifted to hospital where doctors managed to reattach the severed limb. It had only been attached by a small amount of skin."
The couple are understood to have met in Croatia and ended up on a yacht in Palmizana Marina.
Police were now trying to track down the Briton.
"We believe it was probably an accident but the British man has fled and the New Zealand girl is understandably hard to speak to at the moment. We want to track him down to find out his side of the story," Gudelj said.
A spokeswoman for the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said they were providing assistance to the woman and her family.
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