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How to calculate your sea service in trailer hopper suction dredgers operating in ports, inshore and in limited near coastal areas.

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This marine notice highlights shipowners, operators, masters and crews obligation to ensure safe working arrangements are in place for any work involving a ship’s elevator.

Radiotelephones, signalling lights, EPIRBs, and satellite communications equipment.

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Getting hooked-up is one of the most dangerous situations you can experience on a trawler. Be prepared. Knowing what you and your crew need to do can save lives.

These are the deficiencies for MARPOL that our inspectors have found.

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Instructions where an Australian commercial vessel under construction is required to undertake sea trials prior to the issuance of statutory certification.Australian vessels intended to b

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On 14 July 1975 the Marine Operations Centre in Canberra was alerted that the oil tanker Princess Anne Marie had sustained a large crack in its hull approximately 300 miles off Western Australian.

This marine notice aims to raise awareness of the risks involved with getting on and off vessels.

You have a responsibility not to pollute the sea, and to be aware of the laws about oil and garbage pollution from vessels, including fishing vessels.

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