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.
The mooring snagged on an unseen underwater object and the chain was pulled out of the bow roller and down the side of the vessel. The vessel capsized with no resulting injuries.
This exemption allows people to work as a master or chief mate on a vessel operating in the Great Barrier Reef or Torres Strait Zone or from a Queensland island without the required certificate.
Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL Annex VI) allows ships to use exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) to comply with the 0.50 per cent m/m sulphur fuel oil limit that commenced on 1 January 2020
A contractor working on a vessel fell into the water whilst disembarking due to the gap between the wharf and the vessel. A safe means of access to the vessel was not provided.
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.
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued a safety recall for certain Life Jacket Solutions (LJS) and Marlin lifejackets fitted with Halkey Roberts 3F Single Point Manual Inflators. This is due to a safety defect that may prevent proper inflation, posing a drowning risk.
In the May edition we guide you through the alternate survey process, explain the coroner's recommendations from the inquiry into the loss of FV Cassandra and FV Dianne and more.
From the 23 December 2023, the updated Marine Order 11 (Living and working conditions on vessels) (MO11) including new amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC) will come into effect.