AMSA Connect phone services may have longer wait times on Monday 1 June 2026 while we operate with reduced staffing due to the Reconciliation Day Public Holiday in Canberra. Our search and rescue team will continue to operate during this time.
Carry the type of lifejacket required for your vessel's highest service category. You can choose self-inflating, manual inflating or foam buoyancy lifejackets.
From 1 July 2018, new survey requirements for domestic commercial vessels apply. This includes changes to marine order 503 to apply the new periodic survey requirements to all vessels required to be in survey—existing, transitional and new vessels.
In this edition we explain how you can design your own forms for surveys, we clarify the EPIRB requirements for life raft, discuss disputed deficiencies during initial survey and more.
Following the oil spill at Port Stanvac in South Australia on 28 June 1999, an inquiry was undertaken to investigate the reason for the spill and whether any corporation or individuals were responsible and should be prosecuted.
Following the Pasha Bulker grounding off Newcastle on 8 June 2007, three separate inquiries were undertaken to investigate the circumstances surrounding the cause of, and response to, the incident.
Exercise Barossa was a biannual oil spill response exercise conducted in Adelaide under our National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil and Other Noxious and Hazardous Substances.
Just before midnight on 24 January 2006, approximately 25 tonnes of heavy fuel oil was spilt from the bulk carrier Global Peace while berthing at the RG Tanner Coal loading facility in Gladstone in Queensland.