A round-up of news from around the region, including concerns over seasonal work in New Zealand and Australia.

A team of marine scientists has uncovered what appears to be a previously unknown species of sea squirt during a deep-sea ...

This is according to a rapid assessment expedition led by Conservation International with New Zealand Geographic.

Commander Yvonne Gray was the captain of the HMNZS Manawanui when it left New Zealand on the ill-fated trip to the Pacific ...

A lack of training, qualifications and experience among the crew on board a New Zealand navy ship that ran aground, caught ...

Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Manawanui ran aground with 75 people on board in Samoa whilst conducting a hydrographic ...

The specialist dive and hydrographic vessel had been in service for New Zealand since 2019 and was surveying the reef that it ran aground on. Its sinking provoked alarm, demands for compensation ...