A 29-year-old man who died when he was swept off rocks while fishing at a notorious Whangarei spot yesterday has been named as Mario Openshaw.

New Zealand officials are tempering expectations ahead of make-or-break talks to establish the world's largest marine reserve in Antarctica this week.

Most sailors gearing up for next month's 470 world championships will be hitting the water as they fine-tune their preparations but not Jo Aleh - instead, she'll be riding some of the most demanding stages of this year's Tour de France.

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council is reviewing how it notifies the public about oil spills after a refuelling accident went unreported last week.

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

One part of the ceremony that did hit the right note was the moving video tribute to Artemis sailor and British Olympian Andrew Simpson, who died on San Francisco Bay two months ago in a training accident.

He prefers to remain behind the scenes, but this week regatta director Iain Murray imposed himself as the central figure in the 34th America's Cup by taking the fate of the event into his own hands.

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.

Te Tamaki Paenga Hira (Auckland War Memorial Museum) has visitors journeying into the unknown in a major new marine exhibition, Moana - My Ocean. Scientists from across New Zealand have contributed to the new, free marine exhibition which opened Friday 21 June and will run until 28th October 2013. Spanning everything from rare deep sea marine specimens to massively magnified phytoplankton to a Hauraki Gulf boil-up that brings a mid-ocean feeding frenzy to life with artificial intelligence, the exhibition has been two years in the making.

Former students of Evi Nemeth have posted messages of support online in the hope that she and others missing on the yacht Nina are found safe.

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?"

While production launch manufacturing in this country struggles to find a financially viable niche, there is no shortage of innovative custom boats being built here.