Under the National Plan, we have marine pollution response equipment positioned in strategic locations around Australia to support response to an incident.

Under Marine Order 503 a transitional vessel is an existing vessel that has: 

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

This guidance assists the offshore oil and gas industry in understanding the intent of marine order 47 (Offshore industry units), made under the Navigation Act 2012.

Find out how domestic commercial vessels (DCVs) performed on safety, training, risk assessment and more during our focussed inspections campaign on hazardous gases.

Understand the state of the Australian maritime workforce. Find out how many domestic and international seafarers are certificated by AMSA to work in Australia.

Find out how New Zealand STCW seafarer certificates compare to Australian STCW seafarer certificates.

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

This safety alert aims to raise awareness of the risk involved with getting on and off domestic commercial vessels.

The content of the Engineer cadet program including certificate and short courses, qualifying sea service and medical fitness.

In this edition we talk about audits and application assessments.

Our role in working with the offshore industry.

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Our search and rescue incidents from 2016–17.

Australia Bay Seafoods General Manager and career fisherman Michael O’Brien, talks to AMSA about how the tragic loss of life with the capsizing of FV Dianne and FV Cassandra prompted them to reinforce their approach to safety.

The minimum certification and qualifications required by lecturers to deliver our approved courses for the issue of an AMSA STCW Certificate. These requirements are in accordance with the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping 1978, as amended (STCW).

The FOI disclosure list describes the documents disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act, and the date of disclosure.

A timeline of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA’s) involvement in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.