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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

In this edition, we talk about how Surveyor Accreditation Guidance Manual 2 consultation closed, shaft surveys explained and some frequently asked questions related to AMS audits

Commonwealth, state and territory agencies responsible for responding to marine pollution incidents under the National Plan.

At 8.55 am on 10 September 1979, the tanker World Encouragement was conducting berthing operations at an Australian Oil Refinery (AOR) mooring at Kurnell in Botany Bay, New South Wales, when oil began rising to the water surface from beneath the ship.

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

Find out about the search and rescue incidents we attended between July 2019 and June 2020

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

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