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The master and owners of bulk carrier Hope Star have been fined and had criminal convictions recorded following the illegal dumping of garbage in the Great Barrier Reef.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has coordinated the rescue of a solo sailor this morning after he activated a distress beacon when his yacht sank in the southern Whitsundays.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is trialling the use of satellites to detect oil spills in Australian waters.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority is responding to a vessel in distress off the coast of Port Macquarie.

Yesterday, the Governor of South Australia, His Excellency, Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce AC CSC RANR, joined members of the National Search and Rescue (SAR) Council in Adelaide to present the 2011 Australian SAR Award.

AMSA is looking for interested tenderers for an upcoming project at Port Hedland, Western Australia.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority responded to three separate emergency beacon activations yesterday, resulting in the rescue of 13 people.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is encouraging hikers heading out on the Northern Territory’s Larapinta Trail to ensure they are well prepared for the challenging conditions after three rescues in the past 10 days.

An emergency distress beacon played a vital role in the search and rescue of two men and a teenage boy off Evans Head on the New South Wales north coast on Sunday, in a rescue coordinated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s Rescue Coordination Centre Australia has coordinated the rescue of two European tourists from a swollen creek in Western Australia after activating their beacon.

A new ship routeing system will come into effect on 1 June, 2015 at Papua New Guinea’s Jomard Entrance.

Search operations for a missing helicopter pilot off Port Hedland will be suspended at last light tonight, Thursday 15 March, and will continue at first light on Friday 16 March.

A Lorne police officer and a Victorian man have been recognised for their heroism in rescuing a 12-year-old boy earlier this year with the 2013 Australian Search and Rescue Award.

Anthony Roy Wolfe, the owner of MV Wallaroo – an unseaworthy, ex-navy tug boat – was convicted of hindering a Commonwealth public official in Cairns Magistrate Court on Tuesday, 13 October.

More than 350 lighthouses populate Australia’s coastal areas with 300 of these under the operation of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) advises that the wreckage of an overdue single engine aircraft has been located about 39km north west of Gympie.