Two crewmen died of suffocation and another was critically hurt in a log ship's hold at Marsden Pt wharf yesterday.

A man's dead body has been recovered from a car found submerged in a Waikato canal.

Paul Janse van Rensburg's next-of-kin are planning the return of the vessel from Chathams.

The lives of two teenagers trapped in a coastal inlet on Auckland's North Shore were not in danger, said police.

Police have confirmed today that the body found in the Waikato River at Meremere is that of missing Hamilton woman Audrey Gibson.