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 National Law places obligations on maritime operators and other parties to ensure safety of persons and vessels and protection of the marine environment.
On 29 October 1981 the 213-metre 16,336 gross tonnage Ro-Ro container vessel, Anro Asia, grounded near the northern tip of Bribie Island while entering Moreton Bay.
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 Nautical Twilight exercises practised field deployment, operational response management and explored strategic recovery issues in separate exercises.
This guideline defines a nationally consistent approach for local, state and Commonwealth marine incident response geographic information systems (GIS) coordinators to develop and implement their own processes and products.