Danielle Wright meets young ocean swimmers competing in the 10th King of the Bays event at Takapuna Beach.

Danielle Wright takes a sneak peek under water in a glass-bottom boat at New Zealand's first marine reserve, at Leigh.

Brett Atkinson explores the charms of Niue's coral atoll.

New national swimming bosses believe the key athletes have produced encouraging performances at the State New Zealand Open Championships that finished in Auckland last night.

Swimmer Lauren Boyle has been scaling the sport's heights of late.

It's reaching the business end of the State Ocean Swim Series.

A first-time father who drowned while snorkelling south of Melbourne on Saturday will be buried on the same day that his baby daughter is christened.

Swimmers were told to get out of the water at Muriwai Beach near Auckland today after a report of a shark.

It is hoped a boy's body can be recovered from the Waikato River today.

Misuse of prescription drugs, getting drunk, breaching curfews, deceit and bullying highlighted a failure of culture and leadership in the Australian Olympic swimming team.

Ian Thorpe looks increasingly likely to forgo a tilt at this year's world swimming championships in favour of targeting next year's Commonwealth Games.

New Zealand's leading open water swimmers have taken advantage of the absence of the internationals, with Kane Radford and Charlotte Webby convincingly winning the State Capital Classic in Wellington.

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