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Maintenance is essential for the safety of your vessel, your operation, and your crew.

Weather is a key factor in boating safety. Knowing what weather you are heading into is key for your safe return.

The Seacare Authority will be holding a mental health workshop in Perth, on 20 November 2018.

Our search and rescue centre responds to search and rescue incidents throughout Australia.

Read about the search and rescue incidents that we have attended in the last year.

From 1 July 2018, you will have one system to navigate.

Long before Australia's earliest lighthouse was built at Vaucluse, NSW in 1818, European mariners were guided by onshore fires lit to navigate their ships to safety.

Following public consultation on options for a future approach to the domestic commercial vessel survey regime, AMSA released the final Regulation Impact Statement (RIS)-Survey under the National System for Domestic Commercial Vessels.

The successful rescue of a solo sailor was coordinated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority on July 28 after the yacht was caught in heavy seas about 45km offshore from South West Rocks on the NSW mid-north coast.

If you receive an automated call pretending to be from AMSA-it is a scam. We do not use automated calling.

Since December 2016, we have conducted 113 compliance checks on 53 cruise ships with 100 per cent compliance observed.

Preparations are underway to secure a contract for recovery of containers that fell overboard southeast of Newcastle last year from the cargo ship YM Efficiency, owned by Taiwanese company Yang Ming.

There are special arrangements for vessels which meet the definition of 'tender' under the national law.

The biennial Australian Wooden Boat Festival is being held in Hobart, Tasmania from 8-11 February 2019.

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

Across Australia and New Zealand, people are wearing their lifejackets to work today. This is to recognise the National Safe Boating week 2022 theme of 'Lifejackets save lives'.

From 1 January 2020, all ships and vessels operating anywhere in the world will be required to use fuel oil with a maximum sulphur content of 0.5 per cent m/m.

Preparations are well underway to commence the clean-up operations.

Exemption 07 allows vessel owners to apply to AMSA to operate temporarily without a certificate of survey, certificate of operation or load line certificate.