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

Safety Gear Check

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New Life Jacket Standards in Tasmania

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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.

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Anchoring a Boat

Tips and guides to anchoring your boat.

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

Have you serviced your life jacket?

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Boat Capsize

Stay with your boat

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Boat Lights at Night

Make sure your boat has navigation lights and a mast light

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Boat Ramp Etiquette

A guide to boat ramp etiquette

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Boat Suitability

Choose the right boat for the conditions

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Boating and Alcohol – Stay under .05

Stay under .05

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Boating and Fishing Fun Day at Longford

Boating and Fishing Fun Day at Longford 2013

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Boating Communications

Keep in touch

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Boating safety with cray (rock lobster) pots and nets

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Buoyancy in Boats

A guide to buoyancy and flotation

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Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning

Dangers of Carbon Monoxide when boating

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Care and servicing of inflatable Life Jackets

Checking inflatable life jackets

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Changes in Life Jacket Standards commence 1 January 2021

New Life Jacket Standard.

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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.

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Checking Your Inflatable Life Jacket

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

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Crossing Barways

A guide to barway crossing

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Do you know how your life jacket works?

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

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Buying an old or second hand boat

This is a must watch video for anyone in the market for a second hand boat.

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EPIRBS

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon

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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.

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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.

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Get a weather forecast before going out on your boat

Always wear a lifejacket

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Going boating? Check the weather

Be Boatwise – there are no second chances

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GPS Plotter

A guide to the GPS plotter

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Hookah Diving Safety

A guide to hookah diving safety

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Installing and maintaining moorings

A guide to installing and maintaining moorings

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Kayaks and Canoes – Paddle Safety

A guide to safe paddling in Tasmania

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Kayaks and Sit on Tops

A guide to kayaks and sit-on-tops

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Keep a Lookout

Keeping a lookout

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Man Overboard

Be boatwise. There are no second chances.

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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.

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MetEye

MetEye - Weather forecasting tool from the Bureau of Meteorology

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Mooring Maintenance

A guide to mooring maintenance

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Boat Maintenance

Maintain your boat

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Paddle Safe

A guide to safe paddling in Tasmania

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Paddling in Low Light

New rules are in place for lighting of paddle craft including kayaks and rowing shells.

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Prop Strike

Help to prevent prop strike

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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.

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Rowing Safety and Rowing Capsize

Rowing safety Tasmania

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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.

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