While most teenagers spend their spare time checking their Facebook updates, Yasmine Dai has been more interested in staring into murky tanks of sea water.

Kiwis tired of getting their fancy boat shoes wet when launching the dinghy down the boatramp, or those who envisage driving to Waiheke for the day, are in luck.

Passengers on the boat that capsized near Greece, and claimed the life of a toddler, say the toddler's father was working with smugglers and driving the boat.

A boss acting for the MV Rena's Greek owners has again said sorry for the ship's calamitous grounding four years ago.

Jeremy Charles Brons of Christchurch was swept away by a swollen Snowy River after a failed West Coast river crossing.

The wreck could pave the way to a bright and prosperous future, but a golden opportunity could easily be squandered if the wrong decisions are made, writes Roger Grace.

Ask your average Tauranga local about the Rena and you'll find they haven't thought about that not-too-distant hunk of steel in a long time.

When it comes to good manners, the Pacific striped octopus may be the king of the ocean.

The mystery boatie featured in yesterday's amazing dolphin photo has been found, but says he missed the perfect shot because he was too close to the action.

It's ranked the ninth largest in the world, and boasts an on-deck jacuzzi, six swimming pools, a gym, a helipad and a helicopter hanger.

Andy Casagrande captures some incredible 4K footage and gives us a unique point-of-view from a great hammerhead shark's dorsal fin as it swims along the ocean floor. Source: GoPro/Youtube

Department of Conservation bosses are employing "secret shoppers" to track controversial great white shark dive experiences.

Sam Judd is the co-founder of Sustainable Coastlines, an organisation that works with businesses, school kids and criminals to educate, plant trees and clean up our coastlines.

The World Wildlife Fund Australia captured from a GoPro attached to the back of a turtle as it dove through the waters over Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The video, which gives a turtle's-eye view of the coral system is being used to highlight the level of pollution affecting turtles in Australian waters. Source: WWF Australia/Facebook

A suggestion from his wife led to a Kiwi inventor spending years automating one key 'manly' function.

Two Kiwi sailors had just seconds to grab life jackets and abandon their burning yacht after being woken by their skipper at midnight.

They washed in by the thousands: tiny red crabs covering the Orange County shoreline much further north than their typical home.

The New Zealand Navy seized about $235 million of high-grade heroin - then let the smugglers free and hosed the drugs into the ocean.

Giant waves which pounded houses, spat up boulders and trapped a vehicle on Wellington's south coast could return today.

Car batteries, coffee cups and condoms - welcome to the underwater junkyard that lies just off our city beaches.

Researchers have linked an ancient marine dolphin fossil, found in Waitaki, with an endangered dolphin that lives in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh.

They perform feats of amazing acrobatics, create intricate works of art and some just look weird - but until last year these species were completely unknown to science.

In a paper published yesterday in Science, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) describe the unique mechanism that enables the opah, a deepwater predatory fish, to keep its body warm.

Although they are frequent visitors to the Manukau and Kaipara Harbours, white sharks are rarely seen in the gulf.