Snorkeler missing in Central Hawkes Bay
The police national dive squad will today search for a snorkeler who went missing from a Hawkes Bay beach.
The police national dive squad will today search for a snorkeler who went missing from a Hawkes Bay beach.
New Zealand's Chinese community is outraged at a "lack of respect" shown to the wreck of a ship which sank more than 100 years ago with 499 Chinese bodies on board.
A boat which sank in Manukau Harbour last night, leaving two men struggling for their lives, had a hole and was not seaworthy, rescue services say.
The body of a missing man whose dinghy was found in an Invercargill river has been recovered.
A 13-year-old girl swam to shore and ran 2km to raise the alarm, arriving "cold and wet" on a woman's doorstep, after a deadly boating accident.
A teenage girl swam ashore and ran 2km across a remote and rugged shoreline to call for help after the boat she was on capsized on the North Island's East Coast this morning.
The Interislander ferry Arahura is stranded in Wellington Harbour with 61 passengers aboard after losing power this morning.
The man who dove in to Tauranga Harbour to rescue an unconscious jetskier said it was a "no-brainer" decision to try to help him.
The search for a Warkworth fisherman who has been missing for more than a week is continuing.
A 91-year-old who lost control of a powerboat which collided with a rowing eight, putting pupils in hospital, says his age didn't factor into the 'freak accident'.
Senior students went to the rescue of an Otago Boys' High School rowing eight when their skiff was hit by a powerboat driven by their coach in Otago Harbour yesterday morning.
Authorities searching for fisherman Nick Stubbs were yesterday still unable to find any trace of him.
Police have confirmed the man who died when a 12-foot boat flipped at Mahia, north of Wairoa on the East Coast, this morning was a 57-year-old local.
School friends of Nick Stubbs say they'll keep searching the sea everyday until they find their mate.
The search for a second fishermen lost at sea off the coast of Martins Bay north of Auckland continued this afternoon after one body was located.
A 38-year-old man suffered an electric shock after the mast of a boat struck power lines at the Outward Bound School in Marlborough this afternoon.
Surf lifesavers trying to find the body of missing boy Jack Dixon will decide whether to continue their search on Friday.
The director of charter company Dive Spot has pleaded not guilty on charges laid after a boat propeller killed an Auckland man.
Wayne Redman clung to the upturned hull of his boat for hours in icy-cold water fearing he might not survive.
Coffee and Weet-Bix were what a fisherman needed after spending four hours in the cold waters of Tauranga Harbour.
A fisherman missing on the Tauranga Harbour since midnight last night has been found after making his way to shore.
"I was told I wouldn't get those sensations back." Gaining some feeling in his lower body has given quadriplegic Kiwi wakeboarder Brad Smeele hope.
Kiwi wakeboarder Brad Smeele has taken a "huge step" in his recovery, after being rendered quadriplegic in a devastating accident in the United States.
Local boaties came to the assistance of four paua divers when their boat overturned in strong wind gusts yesterday.
As the stricken Costa Concordia limped its way towards Genoa last week, Italy was remembering the 32 people who lost their lives in the cruise ship disaster.
The Green Party announced plans to immediately ban deep sea drilling around NZ’s coast if the Greens form the next government.