Prepare and submit your application for a role with us.

This consultation feedback report is based on submissions to us via an online form and Facebook.

Learn how to control the risk of fatigue to your crew and your operation.

In some circumstances, it is mandatory to make a MARPOL report for certain pollution incidents.

In this edition we talk about Lightship declarations and the law, new surveyor accreditation guidance manual part 2 now available and electrical issues able to be identified by non-electrical periodic surveyors.

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.

Read a transcript of the webinar 'Fatigue risk management' held 19 February 2025.

How to calculate and record your sea service for a near coastal certificate of competency.

Our information publication scheme provides access to details about AMSA's operations.

Read a transcript of the webinar 'Managing operational stability risks in commercial fishing' held on 19 February 2026.

You need to keep your certificate of recognition current to keep working as an international seafarer in Australia. Make sure you renew your overseas (primary) STCW certificate before applying to revalidate your CoR.

In this edition we talk about recent surveyor audits.

Oil tankers above 150 gross tonnage and other ships of 400 gross tonnage or above must record oil-relevant operations.

This program of regulatory activities was completed during the 2017–2018 financial year.

In this safety lesson, veteran trawl fisher Mark Millward explains what he has learned from involvement in person overboard incidents. Mark has operated in the Queensland East Coast and Torres Strait Prawn Trawl Fisheries for over 40 years.