In the 1950s, high-profile American surfers and their camera crews broadened their search for the perfect wave beyond their home beaches.

Play it safe in the water and know your limits this summer, says Water Safety New Zealand.

Police are investigating how a yacht caught fire, burned through a line and caused damage to two other yachts nearby.

Three boaties who spent the night in Cook Strait could have been rescued much sooner.

Both of the men missing after their small boat capsized off Wellington's south coast last night have been found alive.

When Mandy Hague went to White Island to count seals, she had no idea she would get a photo of a mako shark leaping from the water.

A shark attacked a snapper and bit off part of its body as it was being reeled in by an angler - but left enough on the hook for the fisher to win her contest.