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.

A diver failed to resurface after going underwater north of Kawau Island and has not been seen for several hours.

The bodies of five seaman and the 20 survivors from the sinking of a Korean fishing boat in the Southern Ocean arrived in Bluff last night.

A couple were forced to spend a 'tough' night out in the open after abandoning their boat in rough seas off southern Fiordland.