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Two leap for their lives from burning boat

Two people were rescued after leaping into the water from a burning launch off Mayor Island in the Bay of Plenty today.

Maritime chaos has coastguard on alert

Rescue services were flat-out with 25 callouts by 5pm yesterday.

Ferry tragedy due to failures at every level, inquiry hears

Diappearing acts of the last decade

Tongan ferry was 'rust bucket' inquiry told

The Princess Ashika was an old "rust bucket" and he had not revised a memorandum of agreement for purchasing the vessel, the man who was company secretary of the Shipping Corporation of Polynesia has told a Tongan royal commission.

15 rescued from rip

A set of freak conditions conspired to catch 15 children in a rip yesterday, prompting a major rescue effort.

Foveaux ferries in near collision

Ferry CEO gives evidence

Granddad dies saving kids from vicious rip

A notoriously dangerous stretch of Northland beach has claimed the life of an Auckland man trying to pull his grandchildren from a rip.

Negligence admitted at inquiry

Boat burns, sinks in Lake Wakatipu

Budding pirate's voyage scuttled

Fisherman swept out to sea named

Tongans face ferry wait

<i>Herald</i> reporter honoured

Angler survives late-night ordeal

A fisherman whose boat sank in the middle of the night was so determined not to surrender it that he swam the waterlogged vessel nearly 1km to safety.