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Mariners are advised the navigation buoy on the sunken vessel Anmaropa  at the St Helens Bar has been re-established. A copy of the email advice from Marine and Safety Tasmania (MaST) is featured below. It is timely to remind sea farers the conditions on the barway are changed since the recent weather events. Members undertook a survey […]

Important Message to Mariners Changes to Radio Roster for the Winter: We have seen a dramatic decrease in the number of vessels logging on to our radio service. Additionally at this time of the year we experience a big reduction in the number of available radio operators. In order to provide this essential service we […]

Commercial operators in St Helens are invited to a free workshop on the 12th of May, 2016. The aim of the workshop is to give commercial operators an understanding of a Safety Management System (SMS). See details below. Please RSVP. 

This is a very important announcement to mariners covered by St Helens Marine Rescue. A review of the stability data for the SAR vessel “Georges Bay” was undertaken by our Naval Architect. We are pleased to announce, subsequently there has been a revision of the vessel’s certificate of Survey (dated 10th February, 2016)  now states: “Towing to be […]

St Helens Marine Rescue is excited to inform mariners Georges Bay is finally in Survey. This came through as of Friday the 29th of January, 2016. In order for this to take place the vessel had to undergo a rigorous assessment which means it meets the standards as prescribed under the Australia wide NSCV (National System for […]