Participation included representatives from Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and AMSA.

The course is a competency-based training program which provides participants with a nationally recognised statement of attainment. The competency focuses on:

• preparing containment
• recovery and storage of marine pollution response equipment
• deploying and recovering in an operational setting.

Participants are also required to be able to communicate effectively as a team and to develop site-specific deployment plans to meet the incident action plan objectives.