Surfers rescue boaties in Westport
Surfers rescued two men who were thrown from their boat while trying to enter the Buller River off Carters Beach, Westport.
Surfers rescued two men who were thrown from their boat while trying to enter the Buller River off Carters Beach, Westport.
A free diver who was dragged to the depths of the ocean by a killer whale has told how he got down to his "last breath" during the terrifying ordeal.
Stewart and Sonja Goodsir were on the water heading home after a day's fishing when they noticed the smoke.
When a bedraggled and bewildered Jose Salvador Alvarenga washed up on a remote Pacific atoll many were sceptical of his tale - but it's been backed by scientists.
A man has been arrested for drink-driving just 15 minutes after police rescued him and his friend when their jetboat got into difficulty in Queenstown last night.
Twelve Kiwi students set off on Monday on a 13-day voyage to the Auckland Islands .
'When it first happened I was like, I'm not even getting in the bathtub again.' But surfer Darren Mills has changed his mind, after his shark encounter.
It was meant to be a leisurely float down a river. But two men needed rescuing overnight after their lilos ran out of deep water and they ended trudging down a riverbed.
Half an hour before Fiona Gooder died while trying to save her foster daughter at a Northland beach, she sent her husband a text saying she "was in paradise".
Tired, panicking and gulping sea water, a grandfather struggled to hold on to his 8-year-old granddaughter in strong currents at an East Auckland beach yesterday.
A Mexican fisherman who says he drifted for months across the Pacific Ocean before washing up on a remote Marshall Islands atoll is on his way home.
A man is missing and another is fighting for his life after they fell from a waterfall south of Murchison yesterday.
The sole survivor of a boat capsize in Foveaux Strait which claimed the lives of eight people heard the screams of the only child on board just after a massive wave swamped the vessel in the middle of the night, a court has heard.
Eight divers were rescued from the sea in Hauraki Gulf when their inflatable boat began to take on water yesterday .
A key question in the trial of Easy Rider owner Gloria Davis is her knowledge of the safety issues surrounding the vessel.
The skipper of a boat that sank in Foveaux Strait resulting in the deaths of eight people made a catalogue of errors, the trial of his widow heard yesterday.
The widow of the Easy Rider skipper faces trial today over the vessel's deadly sinking in Foveaux Strait nearly two years ago.
A diving incident near Wellington has claimed the life of a man in his early thirties.
Footage of a fatal crash between a dinghy and a yacht in the Bay of Islands has been given to authorities to determine who was at fault.
A 68-year-old man is dead after he was thrown from his dinghy following a collision with a yacht in Northland today.
Police in North Otago are "desperately" seeking witnesses to help shed light on how a man was left paralysed for life after becoming tangled in a boating rope.
One person is dead and another critically injured after a high speed crash on a river in the Hawkes Bay.