This marine notice highlights the importance of ensuring navigation bridge visibility on all vessels sailing in Australian waters. Vessel operators, masters and navigational officers should take note of its content.

Most services for operators and crew of domestic commercial vessels are now provided by us instead of Department of Transport, Western Australia.

Complete this form to notify us about a safety concern.

In issue 16, read about how planned maintenance can have a significant impact on the safety of the vessel, people, and the marine environment.

This heritage management plan concerns the lighthouse and surrounding land.

Our network includes the 1881 Montague Island Lighthouse in New South Wales.

At approximately 5.30 am WA time on Friday 21 August 2009 the Montara Wellhead mobile drilling unit, located 140 miles offshore from the north-west Australian coast, had an uncontrolled release of hydrocarbons from one of the platform wells. Consequently oil escaped to the surface and gaseous hydrocarbons escaped into the atmosphere.

The National Search and Rescue Council is a cooperative body that is responsible for the national search and rescue response arrangements in Australia.

The National Standard for Commercial Vessels (NSCV) provides standards for vessel design, construction and equipment for domestic commercial vessels.

Find out if you can get an equivalent certificate for your New Zealand engineering certificate of competency.

Constructing the hull, decks, superstructures, deckhouses and bulkheads.

Designing, selecting, and testing anchoring systems.

There are two methods of obtaining a verified gross mass (VGM). The VGM is mandatory for cargoes to be loaded onto a vessel.

The oil spill from the Oceanic Grandeur in Torres Strait in March 1970 highlighted Australia’s lack of preparedness at the time to deal with a major oil spill in the marine environment.

We have diverse teams operating all around Australia.

The cargo ship Pacific Adventurer lost upwards of 270 tonnes of heavy fuel oil when holed on its port side while en route to Brisbane from Newcastle.

On the morning 28 June 1999, a discharge occurred from an offshore loading connection to the Mobil Port Stanvac Refinery in South Australia.

This report summarises the PSC activities of AMSA for the 2020 calendar year.

This report summarises the PSC activities of AMSA for the 2021 calendar year.

A load line or water line are lines on the side of a ship's hull that show where a ship can be legally loaded to.