Exercise George Bass, held on 5 and 6 June 1996, was the major national oil spill response exercise conducted by Australia's National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil for the years 1995 and 1996. Similar major exercises are held each two years, the last being Exercise Capricorn held in Gladstone in March 1994.

The Nautical Twilight exercises practised field deployment, operational response management and explored strategic recovery issues in separate exercises.

This exercise reviewed the effectiveness of a combined Commonwealth, Victorian and industry marine pollution response to a tied 3 pollution incident in Victorian state waters.

The 2018 edition of the Australian Global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS) handbook.

Provides guidance with regard to compliance with Marine Order 32 (Cargo handling equipment) 2016 (MO 32); for occasions when crew may be permitted to undertake cargo operations following stevedore companies confirmation that they are not available to carry out the work.

Geographical overview and charlets of the Great Barrier Reef Inner Route—Booby Island to Cairns.

This guideline defines a nationally consistent approach for local, state and Commonwealth marine incident response geographic information systems (GIS) coordinators to develop and implement their own processes and products.

Marine Order 52 (Yachts and training vessels) 2022 is a remake of Marine Order 52 (Yachts and training vessels) 2016. The commencement date of the remade Order is 1 January 2023.

In issue 14, read about navigation safety, in particular issues associated with the use of Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS).

This bulletin describes three events in which risk identification was found to be inadequate, or risks had been identified but control measures were not effectively implemented.

This bulletin has been superseded by Maritime Safety Awareness Bulletin issue 20.