A VHF radio was being ferried last night to an inexperienced yachtie found alive yesterday off the East Cape after an extensive search.

A pleasure boat with 142 passengers on board crashed into a pier on the River Thames after a fire broke out in its engine room.

A 33-year-old mother has died while rescuing her two-year-old son who had fallen into a lake in Utah from a boat they were travelling in.

The yacht on which one sailor was killed and another lost at sea has arrived back in New Zealand under tow.

Significant decrease in recreational boating deaths shows targeted safety campaigns are working, says Government.

Surviving a horror boat accident which claimed the life of a friend has completely changed New Zealand woman Sarra Hunter-Weston's outlook on life.

There are two types of people in Auckland today. Those who say, "So what. It's just a boat". And humans, writes Andrew Dickens.

It had survived 110 years of choppy waters, but all that could be seen of the Kestrel this morning was its roof floating amid the debris.

Large ship incidents risk new Rena-style catastrophes in New Zealand coastal waters.

KiwiRail says internal investigation ruled out external factors or a power surge as the cause of the 2013 incident.

A man on a fishing vessel has been winched to hospital after suffering from a medical condition out at sea.

A New Zealand woman was flown to hospital with serious head injuries after a boating accident in an Australian tourist hotspot.

Two people on board suffered cuts and bruises after boat slams into Waiheke Island coastline.

The parents of the two overseas students who died when kayaking on Lake Tekapo are still waiting for their sons' bodies to return home.

One of the two men who died on Lake Tekapo should have already been home, but he loved his time downunder so much he stayed on for another term.

Rescuers yesterday revealed the lucky break that meant the toll from the Lake Tekapo kayaking tragedy was not worse.

The two young tourists who died after falling into Lake Tekapo yesterday have been named.

Passengers on the boat that capsized near Greece, and claimed the life of a toddler, say the toddler's father was working with smugglers and driving the boat.

The wreck could pave the way to a bright and prosperous future, but a golden opportunity could easily be squandered if the wrong decisions are made, writes Roger Grace.

Ask your average Tauranga local about the Rena and you'll find they haven't thought about that not-too-distant hunk of steel in a long time.

Two of New Zealand's most renowned marine scientists have argued for more "no-take" marine reserves, where fishing of any kind is banned.

Mervin de Rozario will be farewelled tomorrow after his body was found in the water near Waiheke Island at the weekend.

A wooden fishing boat packed with at least 600 migrants overturned in the Mediterranean Sea and hundreds are feared dead.

A surfer's desperate attempt to fight off a shark that was mauling him has been described as a "Mick Fanning replay" by a friend who witnessed the attack.

A man who drowned after being thrown from a boat on the Waitara River mouth in Taranaki yesterday has been named by police.

Bay of Plenty Maori say they have been offered thousands of dollars to withdraw their opposition to leaving the Rena on Astrolabe Reef.

A total of 14 people have been rescued, but the vast majority of the 456 people on board, many of them elderly tourists, were unaccounted for.

A Paringa man whose jetboat struck a log on Monday evening had a lucky escape despite being “shot forward” into the bow of the boat and breaking his leg.

"This is one of New Zealand's biggest ports - if we can't contain this, how are we going to deal with off-shore drilling? I don't think we can really take the risk."