Police divers searching for a woman who did not surface from a crayfish dive at the weekend have found a body.

Three years after he crashed the Costa Concordia, former captain Francesco Schettino will learn this week if he is to spend most of his remaining years in prison.

"Who would leave a boat on autopilot in a harbour packed with boats fishing?" Police confirm an investigation into a yacht that knocked a man unconscious.

A man was seriously injured in a boating accident south of Motuhie Island in the Hauraki Gulf this afternoon.

Four commissioners have been appointed to decide whether a resource consent should be granted allowing part of the Rena wreck to remain on Astrolabe Reef.

A mother and her son who were swept out to sea at a Hawkes Bay beach have been discharged from hospital and are back home recovering.

When Ian Waterson saw a mother and her child being swept out to sea he ran outside, jumped onto his 4WD farmbike and drove straight into the ocean.

Trouble has again hit the Melilla 201. It's been tied up at a Dunedin wharf for two years, and nearly ran aground as it tried to leave yesterday.

Queenstown's harbourmaster isn't impressed after four men he advised to get off their inflatable airbed floated under bungy jumpers - and were fined.

A man was rescued off the Northland coast overnight after a yacht struck rocks and sank.

Police have confirmed a body pulled from the water off an Auckland beach on Monday was that of missing swimmer, 24-year-old Johnny Perese Faitaua.

Family and friends of a young Chinese man who drowned in Northland on Christmas Day are campaigning for bilingual warning signs about deadly coastal rips.

Searchers looking for a missing swimmer at a West Auckland beach found a body yesterday morning.

Agony for family of missing swimmer Johnny Faitaua after body found in the water near Bethells Beach, west of Auckland.

Family of missing swimmer hold vigil at Auckland beach as rescuers search coastline.

A second search has been carried out at daybreak for a man missing off O'Neills Bay on Auckland's west coast.

Three exhausted Gisborne men are lucky to be alive after the boat they were in overturned and they spent three hours in the sea in Poverty Bay before a chance rescue by a passing vessel.

A Queenstown jet-boat operator says trying to find out how one of its boats hit a rock, injuring six tourists, is proving 'frustrating'.

A kayaker who found herself in trouble clung onto a buoy as her daughter made it to shore and raised the alarm.

The Coastguard and police are unimpressed with an ill-equipped boatie rescued today after going missing in a small boat.

It has been a tragic summer in New Zealand waters, with eight drownings since Christmas Day.

An up-and-coming sports star who drowned in a tragic paddle boarding accident in Coromandel has been remembered by her family as a "vibrant and energetic" girl.

Three fishermen huddled together in the water for eight hours last night after their boat overturned near the Firth of Thames.

A 15-year-old girl has drowned after her paddleboard was swept under a boat by a strong current and wind at Whangamata this afternoon.

Off-duty lifeguards have saved two teenage girls caught in a rip and screaming for help.

Fears are growing for the lives of eight crewmen after a cargo ship overturned off the north coast of Scotland.

The family of a New Zealander who died trying to save a dive boat during a storm is travelling to the California island he called home.

Three boaties have been rescued after their vessel capsized crossing the notorious Kawhia bar in Waikato.

They died together and now two men caught up in a tragic boating accident in the Manukau Harbour this week will be farewelled together.