A pregnant woman watched helplessly as rescuers tried to save her fiance after he was pulled from a Northland beach.

A man has drowned off Ruakaka Beach today after he and two others were swept 100m offshore.

Police have named the teenager who drowned in a Taranaki river yesterday.

Twenty-one seconds is all it took for Wendy Atkinson's 2-year-old to scale their regulation-standard pool fence.

A woman is in a critical condition following a near drowning on Auckland's North Shore.

The deaths of 21 young Kiwi men who drowned in our waterways last year were preventable, Water Safety New Zealand says.

The name of the Filipino fisherman who was washed out to sea yesterday has been released.

A NZ family is mourning the loss of their2-year-old girl after she tragically drowned after she was found unconscious in a backyard swimming pool.

One person has died in a water rescue at Doves Bay Marina, near Kerikeri in the Far North.

A body has washed up on Muriwai Beach, north-west of Auckland, this afternoon.

Twins needed CPR after being pulled from a pool in Sydney.

The family of a Hamilton man who drowned in the Waikato River, as his dog sat at the edge, have left the city as memories of his death remain raw.

The girlfriend of a 19-year-old man who drowned in an Otago lake on Saturday has criticised the lack of signage on the shore.

A man who saved a young girl from drowning yesterday then went home to get his dive gear to recover the body of a young man.

A wife is distraught after her husband died at the beach where he posed for his wedding photo just seven months earlier.

Water Safety New Zealand issues warning after a disturbing series of images showing someone being swept off their feet by a crashing wave.

Finbarr Patrick Clabby could not swim when he ended up in Wellington Harbour after a night out. His body was found later the same morning.

A raft of changes to safety rules for swimming pools will save lives, the Government says - but some are not convinced.

A five-year old boy who died north-west of Auckland this afternoon drowned after his quad bike crashed into a creek, police have confirmed.

A woman who survived an ill-fated rafting trip that claimed the life of her Oscar winner husband by clinging to a ledge as waters raged around her has died.

An instructor at an Auckland pool and leisure centre has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition following a medical emergency this evening.

A teenager who died while swimming at a popular Auckland waterfall has been remembered.

Suzy Fewtrell screamed when she saw her husband floating face-down in the water after being caught in a "freak wave".

A woman has died in a suspected drowning at a marina south of Whangarei.

Neighbours have described the moment a search turned to tragedy when a 1-year-old boy was found drowned last night.

Water safety experts are begging young men to stop overestimating their abilities or underestimating conditions after a deadly day on New Zealand's waters.

A young man who died after jumping from a bridge in Raglan has been remembered as a talented sportsman and "nicest kid".

A man has drowned in the Kaituna River, and a teen has died after jumping off a bridge in Raglan. The man who jumped onto the teen fled afterwards.

A 20-year-old man has drowned while swimming at the popular Charlies Rock waterhole in Kerikeri.

A man's body has been found in the water off the coast north of Thames.