A teenager is missing, presumed drowned, after he was washed off his boogie board at Piha yesterday.

Searchers have found the body of the second man who drowned in a tragic flounder fishing trip southeast of Auckland.

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.

Boaties have been asked to look out for missing yacht Tafadzwa, which could be drifting without a skipper at the helm.

The first medical officer on the scene after two men fell from Piha's Lion Rock found one man hardly breathing and the other with mangled legs.

Two men are fighting for their lives after falling more than 20 metres from Lion Rock on Auckland's west coast early today.

An Auckland teenager spent 18 hours clinging to a liferaft off the coast of Brazil after her ship capsized.

A New Zealander was one of 64 people rescued from a Canadian sailing ship, filled with high school and university students, that sunk off the coast of Brazil.