Searchers scouring the Tasman Sea near Norfolk Island for the missing American yacht Nina have come up empty-handed.

Sighting of liferaft similar to one carried by Nina spurs renewed effort to find her and 7 people missing since June.

The death of Adam Strange who was killed in a shark attack at Muriwai beach earlier this year could not have been prevented, a coroner has ruled.

The captain of the Costa Concordia did not abandon his ship but was inadvertently "thrown" off the cruise liner during a chaotic evacuation.

Three missing American sailors have an emotional bond with a Whangarei family that the locals will never forget.

The father of an 18-year-old on board the missing American schooner Nina believes it may be just days from making port in Australia.

An Air Force Orion will today perform another aerial search for missing vintage American schooner Nina.

Mark Tucker will never know how much money he lost during the darkest days of the Rena disaster.

One of the seven passengers on a vintage yacht missing in heavy seas off New Zealand had a deep-rooted fear of drowning at sea, which he laid bare in an eerie premonition.

An $11 million fund has been launched to compensate those who lost money during the Rena disaster.

An Air Force Orion is searching near Norfolk Island today for missing vintage American schooner Nina.

The sister of the captain of the missing yacht Nina says the worst possible outcome would be for the crew to be lost at sea forever and to never know what happened.

A search by an Air Force plane today for any sign of the American schooner Nina in the ocean off the North Cape has ended without success.

Three fishermen were plucked from the ocean after their boat overturned off the Waikato coast last night.

Three fishermen were plucked from the ocean after their boat overturned off the Waikato coast tonight.

The search for seven people missing on the historic schooner Nina was delayed this morning because an aeroplane was "broken".

A shoreline search today for the crew of the historic American schooner Nina, missing en route from the Bay of Islands to Newcastle, Australia, has been unsuccessful.

New Zealand experts searching for a yacht missing at sea with seven crew hold grave concerns for their safety, but have not given up hope.

A NZ meteorologist took the last call from seven people aboard an American racing yacht missing in the Tasman: "The weather's turned nasty, how do we get away from it?"

The families of two fishermen who drowned at Lake Arapuni say they may never know how their loved ones came to grief.