'Hellishly dangerous': Row erupts after two-inch longline hook snags beachgoer
A woman whose son ended up in Tauranga Hospital after a fisherman’s longline hook became embedded in his leg during a day at a Mount Maunganui beach says t
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A woman whose son ended up in Tauranga Hospital after a fisherman’s longline hook became embedded in his leg during a day at a Mount Maunganui beach says t
A woman whose son ended up in Tauranga Hospital after a fisherman’s longline hook became embedded in his leg during a day at a Mount Maunganui beach says...
No one will be prosecuted over the fatal capsizing of a boat carrying bird watchers off the coast of Kaikōura last year.
File photo. Photo: 123rf The Marine Transport Association has written to the Transport Minister accusing the Transport Accident Investigation Commission of doing too little and sanitising the reports it does produce. Marine Transport Association executive director Margaret Wind said for the past five years TAIC had been virtually non-existent. "There have been a number of instances within our industry where we were hoping to see TAIC come to the party and we were thinking 'great ... they're going to thoroughly investigate this and we're all going to learn something from it and prevent furthe...