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Safe boating

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

These short videos contain valuable safety information and tips - take a moment to watch these as they could just save your life.

In this section

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Stand-up Paddle Boarding

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Wear your Kill Switch

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Line in the Sand

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Be Paddle Wise

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Older Boaters

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Life Jackets

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

EPIRB Disposal

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Craypots - Safety Tips for Setting Pots

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Discharge of Waste from Boats

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Summer Safety - Boating Alone

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Summer Safety - Life Jackets

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Wear Your Lifejacket

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Summer Safety - Making the Right Decisions

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Summer Safety - Paddling

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Look After Your Boat - It's your responsibility

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Mooring Maintenance

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Moorings in Tasmania

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Moorings - Servicing

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Moorings - Audits and Rules

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Rules for Lighting on Paddle Craft and Rowing Shells

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Safe Boat Registration

If you are buying or selling a boat, watch this video. You will need to complete the necessary paperwork procedures correctly before the transfer can be accepted.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Electronic Visual Distress Signals

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Unsafe Vessels

Some boats are being sold through social media or on the side of the road that are unsafe. New legislation is being introduced from 1 July 2023. Operators need to declare on registration and transfers that the vessel is not unsafe.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Reminder for Older Boaters

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

How to use a VHF Radio

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Boat Trailers

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Boat Ramp Etiquette

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Navigation - Collision Regulations

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Navigation and Keeping a Proper Lookout

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Craypots - Tips for safely setting and Retrieving

Marine Safety Guides and Tips

Hugo's Story

Marine Safety Guides and Tips

Sarah's Message

Marine Safety Guides and Tips

Sarah's Story

Marine Safety Guides and Tips

Be Safe - Be Sensible when you go boating

Marine Safety Guides and Tips

Make the right decisions when you go boating

Marine Safety Guides and Tips

Know Your Boat

Marine Safety Guides and Tips

Shared Waterways

Marine Safety Guides and Tips

Towing Safety

Marine Safety Guides and Tips

Personal Water Craft

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Does your child's life jacket fit properly?

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Safety Gear Check

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

30 Second Challenge

The 30 second challenge involves making sure your life jacket is on, accessing your flares, having your EPIRB ready to deploy and sending a dummy mayday call.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Anchoring a Boat

Tips and guides to anchoring your boat.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Be Boatwise – there are no second chances. Service your life jacket.

Have you serviced your life jacket?

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Boat Capsize

Stay with your boat

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Boat Lights at Night

Make sure your boat has navigation lights and a mast light

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Boat Ramp Etiquette

A guide to boat ramp etiquette

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Boat Suitability

Choose the right boat for the conditions

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Boating and Alcohol – Stay under .05

Stay under .05

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Boating Communications

Keep in touch

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Buoyancy in Boats

A guide to buoyancy and flotation

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning

Dangers of Carbon Monoxide when boating

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Care and servicing of inflatable Life Jackets

Checking inflatable life jackets

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Cold Water Immersion

The effects of falling into cold water can be deadly. MAST TV has visited the Australian Antarctic Divison to look at the impacts of cold water immersion.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Checking Your Inflatable Life Jacket

Put a reminder in your phone or calendar to have your inflatable life jacket serviced regularly.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Crossing Barways

A guide to barway crossing

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Do you know how your life jacket works?

Do you know how your jacket works? Does your jacket fit you correctly?

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Buying an old or second hand boat

This is a must watch video for anyone in the market for a second hand boat. Do not purchase or sell an unsafe vessel. Seek the opinion of a professional.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

EPIRBS

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Fire Safety

Fire and boats don’t mix. You hope never to have a blaze on board your boat. However, if it does happen, it pays to be prepared.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Flares and how to use them

Flares are an essential piece of safety equipment in sheltered and open waters in Tasmania but few boaties know how to use them.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Get a weather forecast before going out on your boat

Always wear a lifejacket

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Going boating? Check the weather

Be Boatwise – there are no second chances

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

GPS Plotter

A guide to the GPS plotter

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Hookah Diving Safety

A guide to hookah diving safety

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Kayaks and Canoes – Paddle Safety

A guide to safe paddling in Tasmania

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Kayaks and Sit on Tops

A guide to kayaks and sit-on-tops

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Keep a Lookout

Keeping a lookout

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Man Overboard

Be boatwise. There are no second chances.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

MAST Life Jacket Awareness Day

Please take a few minutes to have a look at the video from the MAST life jacket awareness day held on 27 February 2015.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

MetEye

MetEye - Weather forecasting tool from the Bureau of Meteorology

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Boat Maintenance

Maintain your boat

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Paddle Safe

A guide to safe paddling in Tasmania

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Prop Strike

Help to prevent prop strike

Marine Safety Guides and Tips

Rowing Safety – Bow Balls and Heel Ties

This educational video produced by Rowing Tasmania and MAST is one that all rowers, from the junior ranks through to veterans, should take some time to look at and consider the points raised.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Rowing Safety and Rowing Capsize

Rowing safety Tasmania

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Safety Tips for Operating a PWC

This Guide should be popular with all the PWC owners. It gives some useful information and is well worth viewing to get some tips for safer operating and riding.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Salmon Farming in Tasmania

We need to ensure that the boating public and marine farming industry can share the use of these great Tassie waterways safely.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Servicing of Inflatable Life Jackets by Manufacturers

Just as your boat needs servicing, so too does your inflatable life jacket.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Slip Slop Slap Seek and Slide when boating

A guide to boating

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Speed and Wash

Travel at a safe speed for the conditions

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Do your homework before buying a secondhand boat

Be Boatwise – there are NO second chances.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Transiting the Tasman Bridge

This MAST TV episode is about responsibilities of recreational craft around larger commercial ships.

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Using a marine VHF radio

A guide to using a marine VHF radio

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Using the killswitch

Using your killswitch

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Wader Safety

A guide to wader safety

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

When Navigating – Right is Right

A guide to navigation

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

You and your tinnie – boat safety tips

Know your limits

Be Boatwise

Marine Safety Guides & Tips

Take the 30 Second Challenge

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Winter 2025 edition of Boatwise

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