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- Lessons Learnt: Kayak and PWC capsize
- Boat ramp cameras switched on
- Service your boat
- Winterising your vessel
- Navigation lights: Be safe, be seen
- Get onboard with beacons
- Use Boating Vic for vital weather checks
- Which boat ramps have cameras?
- Bar crossing danger
- Bushfire relief assistance
- Meet the Director
- Know the weather - Get Boating Vic
- New personal watercraft rule
- Consultation: ABP Standard
- Drowning Report 2018/19
- Lessons Learnt: Invisible poison
- Empty ramp car park warning
- Consultation: Yarra River rules
- Check your fuel
- Stay dry over Cup weekend
- Upcoming events
- Lessons Learnt: Lake plunge
- Will your boat float?
- Have your say on event safety
- Get your gear ready
- Upcoming events
- Marine engine recall
- Lessons Learnt: Lost in the fog
- Consultation: New jet ski rule
- Notices on your waterways
- Get set for summer: Upcoming events
- Follow Maritime Safety Victoria online
- Lessons Learnt: Overboard as night falls
- Salvage operation for grounded yacht
- Prizes up for grabs at the Boat Show
- Keep an eye out for divers
- We're building a ramp camera site
- Lessons Learnt: Wear a lifejacket
- Easter boating safety advice
- Fisherman fined after close call with ship
- Youngsters get on board with safety
- Lessons Learnt: Lock in a buddy plan
- Jet ski owner faces court
- Safety Warning: Check your sealed decks
- In the news: Mercury engine recall
- Lessons Learnt: Carry a distress beacon
- Safety Alert: Navigation lights
- Look out for changing conditions
- Reckless PWC riders face fines
- Lessons Learnt: Could you save yourself?
- Motorised kayak exemption trial extended
- Inspecting boat industry safety plate compliance
- Dangers of bow riding
- Engine pod breaks from transom
- Check the expiry of your flares
Shipshape issues 2018
- Prepare to survive: Know the five
- Lessons Learnt: When weather turns deadly
- New emergency radio service improving boater safety
- Joining forces over the Melbourne Cup weekend
- Lessons Learnt: Lake placid, then perilous
- Nav aid hit: Remember to stay alert
- Prepare your boat for summer
- Fielding boating safety queries
- Lessons Learnt: Radio rescues
- Safety Alert - Fuel tanks
- Sharing boating safety advice with showgoers
- Better prepared with marine emergency drills
- Lessons Learnt: Hidden hazards on a calm day
- Jet ski hoons under intense scrutiny
- Bar crossing warning for paddlers
- Emergency beacons up for grabs
- Annual report released
- Lessons Learnt: Oh buoy, I'm in trouble
- RECALL: Lifejacket batch fails testing
- Boaters need to expect the unexpected
- Trial exemption: Low-powered kayaks
- Trawler runs aground
- New direction for MSV
Shipshape issues 2017
- Lessons Learnt: How a routine commute led to capsize
- Changes to laws about children operating PWCs
- Safety Alert: Vessel overloading and stability
- Identifying boaters most at risk
- Stop to check your gear's in working order
- Rescue agencies honoured with ceremony
- Boating safety boost over summer
- Lessons Learnt: Out of sight, out of mind
- New emergency radio service
- Low visibility warning
- Survey for Victorian PWC riders
- Lessons Learnt: Raising the alarm
- Updated HMDs for Port of Melbourne waters
- Yarra River speed limit changes
- Boating safety education trailer on tour
- Spring into action for snapper season
- Lessons Learnt: Be safe, be seen on the water
- The end of an era - 130 years of vessel surveys
- Time for some TLC: Tatong lifejacket care
- Yarra River ferry inspections
- Coordinated rollout of GPS signage
- Lessons Learnt: Explosion after refuelling
- Partnerships for better boating safety
- Safety education trailer parks up at Melbourne Boat Show
- Setting the standard for training providers
- MSV joins national environmental emergency drill
- Have you winterised your boat?
- Lessons Learnt: Trio tipped into cold water
- Safety education push after PWC blitz
- Come see our team at the Melbourne Boat Show
- Sharing safety tips across the state
- GPS signs point to degree of accuracy
- Lessons Learnt: Capsize at Geelong's Grain Pier
- PWC riders: Ride right or pay the price
- Summer safety survey
- Binned beacons cause false alarms
- Paddling safety in numbers
- Display trailer angling for safety
- Lessons Learnt: Dad shares beacon of hope
- The Age reports on MSV paddle death findings
- Safety authorities urge paddlers to steer clear of alcohol
- Support our safety campaign
- 2015-16 annual statistics released
Shipshape issues 2016
- Gearing up for summer safety
- Water Safety Week 2016
- New marine licence practice test launch
- Safe and accessible Victorian waterways consultation
- New VicEmergency app launched
- Operation South End hits the heads
- Lessons Learnt: Trio lost at sea
- Talking Fishing with our man Marty
- Top tips for boaters and a new weather app
- Get set for the snapper season
- Lessons Learnt: Anglesea angels of the sea
- Calling all paddlers! Want to win a PLB?
- Free safety checks for boating community
- Take a rain check on boating on floodwaters
- New safety signs in time for summer
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