Latest from Maritime NZ

Luxury launch hits rocks

A launch believed to be worth more than $400,000 was this morning lying wrecked on the Tauranga coast after hitting rocks.

Preparation is key to safe bar crossing

Search for missing chopper to resume

Alcohol involved in ferry-launch crash

Warnings on ferry safety 'ignored'

Two hurt in Waiheke ferry crash

Two boaties were injured - but miraculously survived - when their launch was cut in two and sucked under the Waiheke ferry.

Inquiry into ferry, motor launch collision

Two men were injured when they were thrown into the sea after their motor launch collided with the Waiheke Island ferry last night.

Fishing boat's operators hit back at danger claim

Drunk captain delays sailing

Foveaux ferries in near collision

Wrecked boat's crew fight on

The NZ anti-whaling vessel half-destroyed when it and a Japanese whaling harpoon ship collided is too damaged to be salvaged.

Marina waste to be dumped off Great Barrier

Experts urged to find way of preventing Antarctic disaster

Murray McCully has urged experts meeting in Wellington to recommend ways of preventing a tourist boat disaster from ever happening in Antarctica.

Fairfax fined $10k for Dominion Post breach

Niwa dismisses Stewart Is 'iceberg' report

How ship strikes are killing Auckland's whale population

The Hauraki Gulf's resident whale population may disappear before most of us know what we're missing.

Skipper escapes after barge flips

Paper admits story fault