Fisherman airlifted to hospital after fish's barb just misses an artery in his leg.

The three people rescued from a crippled sailboat in the Hauraki Gulf overnight were all wearing lifejackets but had no form of communication.

Three people have been rescued from a boat drifting in the Hauraki Gulf early this morning.

The search for a 79-year-old fisherman missing since a boat capsized off the Kaikoura coastline yesterday morning resumed at first light today.

A newly released independent review into Maritime New Zealand's handling of the Rena disaster has been described by the agency's first director as "housekeeping".

Editorial: The final outcome of the Rena grounding was far from the environmental disaster initially forecast.

Searchers are yet to locate a 79-year-old fisherman, missing off the Kaikoura coast after a boat he was in capsized this morning.

The body of a man has been found by searchers on the shoreline near Kaikoura after a boat capsized this morning.

A new privately-funded search for the missing yacht Nina is taking off this morning - more than five months since the historic yacht left Opua in the Bay of Islands.

Police still hope to find a New Zealand man alive after he jumped into rough seas to save a friend off a beach near Melbourne on Wednesday.

KiwiRail has has stopped taking bookings for all its Interislander ferries after the trouble-plagued Aratere lost a propeller during a Cook Strait crossing.

A search has resumed for a New Zealand man who is feared drowned after he jumped into rough seas to save a friend off a beach near Melbourne.

An investigation has been launched into how the interisland ferry Aratere managed to lose a propeller during a Cook Strait crossing last night.

An overcrowded tourist ferry capsized and sank near a popular Thai seaside town, killing six tourists and leaving 200 needing rescue.

A man who spent 119 days lost at sea is urging NZ authorities to continue the hunt for the Nina, saying he's living proof people can survive against the odds.

'When you are someone's lover, no one asks you for a ticket.' A Moldovan dancer testifies at trial that she was with the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia.

A simple error of judgment led to a diving tragedy that claimed the life of Mark McLeod off the coast of Hahei on Sunday.

A man who died at a popular diving spot off the Coromandel Peninsula yesterday was diving with family members at the time.

A meteorologist says it is possible new satellite images showing what looks like a boat in the Tasman Sea could be the missing ship Nina.

Italian divers have described the horror of seeing dozens of dead refugees trapped inside the hull of a fishing boat that sank off the coast of the island of Lampedusa.

Editorial: Just as it is foolish to take the weather for granted, so it is unwise to consider the small number of restrictions to be set in stone.

A proposed change to lifejacket laws to make wearing them mandatory in boats smaller than 6m has already proved controversial and split opinion.

The wife of a man who died after being swept off his yacht at the weekend says sailing was his life.

A Nelson father of four who died after being swept off his yacht had 25 years' experience on the water, his friends say.

The extraordinary sight of the Costa Concordia hoisted from its watery grave helped erase the shame many Italians felt over the captain crashing it and doing a runner.

An ice-cold wall of water rose so quickly that expat Suzanne Morris had seconds to escape her Colorado apartment in the middle of the night.

The anxiously awaited attempt to pull the crippled Costa Concordia upright from its side off Italy's Tuscan coast is under way.