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.

A lone hero dived into the swirling tide to save a drowning woman. But who was he?

A former television stuntwoman, whom rescuers spent 25 minutes reviving after a near-drowning on New Year's Day, has died after she was sent home from hospital.

An 11-year-old boy watched his father drown at a Far North beach yesterday as he tried to retrieve the boy's boogie board.

Australian police hold grave fears for a New Zealand fisherman missing off the coast of Tasmania.

Figures released today showed 98 people drowned last year, the second lowest annual toll since records began in 1980.

Surf lifesavers are pleading with the public to take care in the water after a spate of drownings.

Sea lice bites, swimmers' rash, summer rash - whatever you want to call it, it's rife at this time of year and drives swimmers crazy.

Men and unsupervised children will be the focus of beach safety campaigns this summer.

Shark sightings have prompted lifeguards at holiday hotspots to urge swimmers to take caution.

Three people had a lucky escape from the Waikato River after hydro dam gates opened a torrent of water onto them.