In Australia, domestic commercial vessels are regulated under the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012 (national law act). The National Law Act underpins the National System for Domestic Commercial Vessel Safety (national system).

We make a range of information available for public access. You can also formally request access to documents we hold under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act).

On 3 April 2010, the Shen Neng 1 was traversing a well-known shipping route south of the Douglas Shoal when it ran aground 38 nautical miles east of Great Keppel Island at about 5.30 pm.

Find safety equipment guides for non-survey vessels based on class and type of operation.

This marine notice aims to raise awareness of the risks involved with getting on and off vessels.

Get the latest insights from vessel inspections including detentions, common safety risks and compliance performance. 

Radiotelephones, signalling lights, EPIRBs, and satellite communications equipment.

Specifies safety standards for the design, construction, equipping and operation of a domestic commercial vessel that is a leisure craft.

Your compliance requirements will be affected by the service category of your vessel.

Recent public consultations which are now closed.

Read a summary of results from the consultation on Exemption 24 - Marine Safety (Emergency service vessels) and download a copy of the full report.

Our Board is appointed by the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.

Our regulatory program is prepared annually and contains details of planned and completed changes to our regulatory instruments.

Our SAR observer program trains SES volunteers to look for signs of people in distress from the air.

Mohammed Taslim is passionate about marine education in the Pacific and has his sights set on promoting e-learning study for seafarers in Fiji in the not-too-distant future.

There are different types of automatic identification systems (AIS) used in Australia.

On the morning 28 June 1999, a discharge occurred from an offshore loading connection to the Mobil Port Stanvac Refinery in South Australia.