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Flares spark search near Nelson

Fruitless boat hunt stirs hoax suspicion

Mayday call 'may have been hoax'

Police have today released dramatic tape of a mayday call from a missing boat off the Northland coast. But is it genuine?

Plane joins hunt for missing boat

Elation and relief as Indian Ocean rowers located

Coastguard collision injures racer

Six drownings in May

Challenging launch rescue off Hawke's Bay

Injured Coast Guard volunteers rescued

Horror boating death victim named

Five coastguard crew rescued after boat hits rocks

Community service for rescued boatie

Hope lost for round-the-world sailor who set off from Tauranga

Survivors want to pay up

Family tipped from boat have lucky escape

Men face charges after boat rescue