Guidance for calculating your sea service equivalence if you are a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Rating (specialist seaman department), Maritime Warfare Officer (Maritime Warfare department) or RAN Leading Seaman, Petty Officer, Chief Petty Officer or Warrant Officer (Marine Engineering or Electrical Technical department).

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.

The Australian states and territories work with us to coordinate an effective search and rescue (SAR) service.

Follow these steps if your RAV is no longer carrying out commercial operations outside the Australian Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ) or it's being brought to Australia to operate as a DCV.

Make electrical safety a priority. Reduce the risk of electrical fire from batteries and electrical installations on your vessel.

If your ship is found to have deficiencies during an inspection, you may be detained and delayed for an unknown amount of time.

Watch the video of Mark Jacobs who has hung up his snorkel and fins to help save lives across 10 per cent of the Earth’s surface.

At AMSA, we believe in supporting you to be the best version of yourself.

Apply for acceptance on the oil spill control agents register.

Australia provides environmentally responsible port waste reception facilities for you to dispose your vessel-generated waste.

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Find out how to provide a photo that meets our requirements for your certificate application.

This safety alert aims to raise awareness of the risks involved with the carriage of battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) on roll-on, roll-off (RORO) ferries.

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

On 22 January 1982 at approximately 9 pm, the oil tanker Esso Gippsland was in the process of loading at Port Stanvac jetty, South Australia, when a large quantity of industrial fuel oil leaked from the air vent and ullage port of its no.2 starboard tank.

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