There's no mucking around when you go fishing in the Chathams.

An Auckland teenager spent 18 hours clinging to a liferaft off the coast of Brazil after her ship capsized.

In the end it was the bronze whaler that came off worse during a terrifying man-versus-shark encounter near Whitianga this week.

When you drive through the Awakino Gorge, you notice the sparkling stream down in the bed of the valley.

Keep the rod up, keep it high," advised Glenn Skinner as the trout splashed on the surface by the boat.

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

Something is holding down the herring population of Alaska's Prince William Sound, and marine scientists are tailing some rather large suspects: humpback whales.

Japanese whalers and anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd are once again pointing the finger at each other after a collision at sea.

A teenage girl who fought off a shark was lucky the animal only gave her an "exploratory bite", an expert says.