Shipwreck
The Week in Detail: Waitlist algorithms, teacher strikes, and the Kermadecs
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
The Week in Detail: Waitlist algorithms, teacher strikes, and the Kermadecs
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
AudioThe oil disaster in our backyard
Experts say this sunken shipwreck could be a disaster bigger than the Rena. Why hasn't anything been done to prevent it? Audio
The oil disaster in our backyard
Experts say this sunken shipwreck could be a disaster bigger than the Rena. Why hasn't anything been done to prevent it?
AudioFinding Shackleton's lost ship Endurance off Antarctica
Scientists have found and videoed South Pole explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship The Endurance, which was lost in November 1915. 107 years later, the wooden ship has been located three kilometres… Audio
New young adult novel based on Kiwi maritime tragedy
It sounds like every teen or tween's worst nightmare: mum and dad drag you off to an uninhabited island for the summer with no wifi or Netflix. And it's the premise of Elizabeth Pulford's new book, a… Audio
Protecting the wreck of the HMS Buffalo in Mercury Bay
There are fears the wreck of the HMS Buffalo off Whitianga will disintegrate after some planks washed up in last months storms. Audio, Gallery
Edwin Fox shipwreck in Picton
The Edwin Fox is a significant piece of World Maritime History and come to the attention of the BBC and Canadian researchers. Edwin Fox museum manager Karen McLeod explains its significance to Jesse.
…Peter Warner: 'Lord of The Flies' rescuer
Peter Warner is part of an extraordinary story that made global headlines over the past week, despite it being decades old. It's the tale of a real life 'Lord of the Flies' scenario, six Tongan boys… Audio
Tourism and the Rena wreck
It's been almost five years since the Rena ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef. It was desribed as the worst maritime environmental disaster in New Zealand, and one of the world's most complex… Audio, Gallery
The salvage of the fishing vessel the Jubilee is delayed a week
Bad weather has halted attempts to salvage the fishing vessel the Jubilee. Audio
Company apologises again for Rena wreck
The Daina Shipping Company has apologised again for the grounding of the Rena, on Bay of Plenty's Astrolabe Reef, and subsequent pollution.
Oashore
Ecological protection goes hand in hand with farming at a 550 hectare coastal property on Banks Peninsula. Cosmo Kentish-Barnes meets Oashore farm manager Kate Whyte, who has safeguarded the last… Audio, Gallery
Oashore
Ecological protection goes hand in hand with farming at a 550 hectare coastal property on Banks Peninsula. Cosmo Kentish-Barnes meets Oashore farm manager Kate Whyte, who has safeguarded the last…
AudioThe Orpheus Disaster
It was, and still remains, this country's worst maritime disaster. In 1863, 189 people were killed when the HMS Orpheus hit a sandbar off the coast of West Auckland. Local Waitakere historian Bruce… Audio