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

A teenage boy drowned in the Waikato River while swimming with a group of friends after school yesterday.

More than half a century after her grandmother swam at an Olympic Games, Gina Galloway has her sights set on following suit.

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.

What's your view on jet-skis? Do you love them or loathe them? What measures do you take to stay safe when they're in the vicinity?

A fun fishing trip with mates turned into a thrilling man-versus-shark stand-off for a Tauranga yachtsman, who escaped his unexpected encounter with just a tiny scar.

Paralympic swimmer Sophie Pascoe likes to spend her summer holidays swimming, but instead of being surrounded by the walls and tiles of her usual swimming pool, she will be outside, under the sun, surrounded by sand.

Mark Regan - the coach of our best-performed swimmer last year - has resigned as high-performance coach at Swimming New Zealand.

As searchers tried desperately to find diver Robbie Farquhar, his two young children were on the beach watching and waiting for their dad to come home.