A man who died while docking a container ship at Lyttelton last year was not wearing a life jacket and was harnessed to a faulty wire, a report has found.

The man who is missing and presumed dead after falling overboard from a Kiwi yacht foiled a robbery earlier this year.

Sixty three-year-old man was swept away after the yacht Platino sustained damage to its rigging 550km north of New Zealand.

The father of a Southland man shot during a hunting trip to Stewart Island, has pleaded guilty to careless use of a firearm.

Police said they arrested an Invercargill man in relation to the fatal shooting of Samuel Phillip Long on March 23.

The young Invercargill man shot dead on Stewart Island had helped build a hunters' hut on the island with his father and been on the local deerstalkers association's executive.

Police have released the name of a young hunter shot dead on Stewart Island yesterday.

Two launches collided in Whangarei Harbour last night, leaving them both significantly damaged.

As thousands of holidaymakers get set to hit the beach and boaties prepare to launch, warnings are being issued about staying safe.

New Zealand's maritime authority is investigating how shipping around our coasts can be made safer, after a high-level report into the Rena grounding.

NZ’s maritime authority is investigating how shipping around our coasts can be made safer, as a high-level report into the grounding of the Rena reveals a catalogue of issues.

The findings of the Transport Accident Investigation Commission's investigation into the catastrophic grounding of the MV Rena, released today, detailed a list of concerns, including those around crew training and international conventions.

Marine officers are aghast a 294-metre iron-sands export ship will be allowed to berth close to the rugged Waikato west coast tomorrow - without a licensed pilot.

Senior students went to the rescue of a year 9 rowing team when their skiff was hit by a powerboat driven by a coach in Otago Harbour this morning.

A Nelson man has died after being struck by a wire on a commercial fishing vessel on the Pacific Ocean.

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An Indonesian man has been killed on a fishing vessel in New Zealand territorial waters.

Three German nationals believed to be aboard the yacht Munetra, missing near Bluff, have been identified by Invercargill police.

The family of one of the three people missing on a yacht for nearly a fortnight may still be in the dark over their disappearance.

The search for missing yacht Munetra has come up empty, and the prospects of finding the yacht and the three on board are "grim''.

The German skipper of a yacht missing with two female crew on board ignored maritime safety instructions.

The death of a watersider who died aboard a ship at the Port of Lyttelton yesterday will hit the close knit workforce and community hard, Maritime Union of New Zealand says.

A distraught fishing-boat crew returned to port yesterday after a colleague was lost overboard.

The wife of a man who died while checking his crayfish pots on Tuesday says her husband loved nothing more than his garden and fishing.