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

Read previous AMSA update editions from 2024

Our search and rescue incidents from 2013–14.

Australian legislative requirements preventing pollution from discharge of garbage.

Survey modifiers are high risk operations and vessel attributes that change the survey and other requirements that would otherwise apply to the vessel.

In this edition, learn more about careers at AMSA and maintenance plan essentials.

If you own or operate a domestic commercial vessel in Australia, you are required to obtain a certificate of operation before you operate the vessel.

Following a report to AMSA, and subsequent investigation, the Pax Phoenix was fined for illegally discharging oily water into the marine environment near Holbourne Island, Queensland on 2 September 2001.

Risk assessments help identify why, when and where lifejackets need to be worn during vessel operations. Wearing a lifejacket can help prevent a tragic incident.

Overview of the international and domestic legislation and standards that apply in Australia.

Defining a 'novel vessel', their requirements, and pathways to certify them.

Dispersants can be effective response tools. Use of dispersants is dependent on many factors including timing, properties of the oil, and logistics.

Safety Alert: 02/2021 aims to raise awareness of correct use of hydrostatic release units, for both float-free life rafts and float-free EPIRBS.

Recent public consultations which are now closed.

Guidance on using an exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) to meet the fuel sulphur limit of 0.50% m/m, as required under MARPOL Annex VI and Australian law.

The Maritine Agencies Forum (MAF) provides a forum for collaboration on maritime safety and other issues.

The Pacific Quest was found guilty of discharging an oily mixture from a ship into the sea near Border Island, Queensland on 25 December 2002.