Her critics wrote her off, but teenage round-the-world yachtswoman Jessica Watson was yesterday nosing along Australia's southwest coast.

The bulk coal carrier stranded on the Great Barrier Reef has been refloated.

Study your tide times calendar and you should soon be getting some good results.

The sunken ferry Princess Ashika was known to be unseaworthy by the Tongan government, leaked reports claim.

Friends of missing yachtie Paul van Rensburg accept he is dead and have called off the search.

Police say a GPS device could provide vital information about what happened to missing yachtie Paul van Rensburg.

Maritime New Zealand has defended its decision to call off the search for missing "ghost ship" yachtie Paul Van Rensburg after three days.

Friends of missing yachtie Paul Janse van Rensburg are "shattered" he wasn't found aboard his yacht but are still holding out some hope he may be alive.

Jo and Ron left Tuakau to meet their fishing club for a day out snapper fishing on the charter vessel Gulf Raider.

Missing yacht Tafadzwa has been spotted west of the Chatham Islands but with no sign of skipper Paul van Rensburg.

Police are searching for a second man who is presumed drowned after a floundering expedition went tragically wrong.