Shipwrecks

Captain Nick Sloane is the man who masterminded the refloating of the Costa Condordia earlier this year - the most expensive salvage effort in history. The Italian cruise ship ran aground and capsized… Audio

The Race Relations Commissioner is backing Chinese New Zealanders worried a shipwreck will be turned into a tourism venture. Audio

It's been 112 years since the SS Ventnor sank off the coast of New Zealand. And it's finally be found. The steamship was on its way from Wellington to Hong Kong when it sank off the west coat of… Audio

A team of archaeologists and historians have dug up part of a ship thought to be some 200 years old at Cape Foulwind on the West Coast. Audio

Writer John McCrystal on how his painstaking research led him to identify a mystery wreck off the dangerous west coast of the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands. Audio

On February 7 1863 the HMS Orpheus, a naval ship carrying British soldiers involved in the New Zealand Land Wars in the Waikato, sunk in Whatipu, near the entrance of the Manukau Harbour. 189 people… Audio

It's 25 years since the Russian cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov sank in the Marlborough Sounds after it struck rocks 5.5 metres below the waterline. Audio