Survivors rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them more than a week ago perished during the journey.
The family of a teenage girl killed in a boat crash in Sydney's south on Australia Day say she was "a beautiful soul, so full of life and love," and say "it's impossible to comprehend life without her".
The wife of Robert Holden, the third man identified as being killed in the Boxing Day boat tragedy on Queensland's Moreton Bay, has opened up about her heartbreak.
The 12-metre yacht ran into trouble five nautical miles northeast of Port Macquarie at 8pm on Monday after "harrowing" conditions affected the yacht's ability to sail.
Police are investigating a bizarre series of events involving a burnt-out car with a body inside, a second vehicle driven off a jetty and the detention of a naked man acting erratically on an allegedly stolen boat.
The trio who attempted to sail to Cairns from Vanuatu in an inflatable catamaran have spoken to 9News about the moment they realised they were in danger.
News that four Australians and two Indonesian crew members have been found alive after going missing on Sunday from a boat trip off the coast of Aceh in Indonesia has made headlines around the world.
A sea and air search is underway off the New South Wales coast for a missing man who hasn't been seen since a suspected solo boating expedition in Lake Macquarie yesterday morning.
The US Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 35-year-old man who went overboard from a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean this week, the military branch said.
A tourist boat capsized in a storm on Italy's Lago Maggiore in the northern Lombardy region on Sunday, with at least one person confirmed dead, Italian media reported.