Divers are looking for a 16-year-old who disappeared after jumping into the water from a cliff.

Police divers will this evening start their search for a 16-year-old boy who failed to resurface after diving into Lake Pupuke in Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore this afternoon during an organised youth group activity.

While the weather is predicted to be perfect for taking to the water this long weekend, people are being warned that the sea can be particularly dangerous at this time of year.

A prolonged heatwave across Russia combined with a prodigious consumption of vodka has led to dozens of drownings every day.

A mystery woman leapt into the sea to save a boy, 4, who was floating face down and being carried into deeper water on the outgoing tide.

A Manuwatu river rafting company has been ordered to pay $300,000 in fines after the 2007 drowning of an employee.

An outdoor pursuits centre field manager told an inquest today it was too dangerous for him to rescue a group of students from a gorge.

An outdoor pursuits field manager has told an inquest he wishes an instructor had not taken students into a gorge where they died canyoning.

An instructor tells an inquest about the day six students and a teacher died during a canyoning trip she was leading in the Mangatepopo Gorge.