Read about the skills and knowledge you’ll learn in a near coastal certificate course.

Find out about vessel categories, calculating vessel size, and read the dictionary of definitions.

Find local suppliers of fuel oil in Queensland.

Guidance for VTS providers on the qualifications and training of VTS personnel in Australia.

Requirements for national colours of flags for Australian ships.

Follow these steps if you want to take a DCV overseas for dry docking, sale or delivery.

How to calculate your sea service before you apply for a sea service assessment.

A unique identifier—also sometimes called a unique vessel identifier—is like a number plate for your vessel.

Operators of Regulated Australian Vessels (RAV) and Foreign Vessels, as well as the shippers of livestock, have obligations when loading and transporting livestock from Australia.

Middleton Kirwasi Gwaday travelled from his home country Papua New Guinea to complete a master's degree in Sweden.

How to use your domestic New Zealand certificate of competency to work on domestic commercial vessels in Australia.

Marine order 504

Lifejackets save lives

This page contains a list of past changes to Marine Orders and International Maritime Organization (IMO) resolutions.

Find out what safety checks you need to do before carrying a fishery observer onboard. 

We are responsible for ensuring there is a consistent approach to the use of AIS on offshore structures and facilities. Find out what we will ask you when you apply.

An unexpected wind-shift during parasailing operations caused 2 airborne passengers to contact the water at speed. They were recovered by the vessel and returned to shore. Both passengers later informed the operator that they had sustained injuries during the event. The owner then failed to report this as a marine incident to us.