Over 100 people are missing after a passenger boat sank in the Volga River. Emotional reunions were plentiful as the shaken survivors returned to dry land.

Police are following up leads to identify a man who drowned in the sea off the suburb of Island Bay in Wellington yesterday.

A coastguard veteran suffered serious burns and a broken jaw in an explosion on his boat at the weekend.

Maritime New Zealand has launched an inquiry into the Fullers GreatSights Bay of Islands vessel Excitor III after several passengers were injured, including one woman who had to spend 12 weeks in a body brace.

Three young girls were having the time of their lives before two were killed in a horrific boating accident yesterday.

A 33-year-old man has died and another man is seriously injured after a boating incident in Fiordland this morning.

Wellington's East by West ferry will run restricted services today after one of its ferries was hit by a large wave yesterday morning.

A student who moved to Wellington to escape earthquake devastation in Christchurch was among those trapped in a ferry as it was struck by wild seas this morning.

The East by West Dominion Post ferry was hit by huge waves in Wellington Harbour where students and crew became trapped.

Commuters on a ferry have been rescued in Wellington Harbour this morning, after a large wave was believed to have knocked one person overboard in Worser Bay.