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Would you like to bring marine safety training to your homeport? Want to help commercial fishermen and other mariners to respond...

Would you like to have an original 16" x 20" drawing of your boat and t-shirts, printed with that artwork, for your family and crew? Well...

Yesterday, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that the Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee will meet in Seattle, Thursday, November...

September 24 – 29, AMSEA held its Marine Safety Instructor Training (MSIT) class in its home port of Sitka, Alaska. We had 10 new...

The U.S. Coast Guard is alerting mariners to the potential for LED lights to interfere with the reception of marine VHF radios and AIS...

Posted by LT Amy Midgett, Thursday, July 26, 2018 ​ The first edition of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s U.S. Coast...

With our fiscal year just ended June 30, 2018, preliminary data shows that AMSEA Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor training reached over 979...

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a Marine Safety Alert for defective Type-I Personal Flotation Devices (PFD). The defect renders the PFD...

UPDATE 03/30/2018: We asked Scott Wilwert, the lead Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety Examiner for U.S.C.G. District 17, for some...

Are you a person that is safety-oriented, likes to share your knowledge with others, and motivated to help save lives? Have you ever...

AMSEA Training Coordinator Rick Petersen has been named Boating Educator of the Year for the State of Alaska by the Alaska Boating Safety...

Why are these guys smiling? Maybe because they know that the PFDs they are wearing just might save their lives. Photo credit: Ted...

There's lots of information on the AMSEA website and while we try to keep things organized, it's not always easy to find exactly what you...

Operating your boat while fatigued can lead to very bad outcomes. But, don't take our word for for it. Listen to Capt. Russ Eager. He ran...

As you may already know, California commercial fisherman, Frank Gee, recently lost the F/V Ocean Gale, to a fire while off Pillar Point,...

Fire extinguisher manufacturer, Kidde, has issued a recall of all fire extinguishers with plastic handles. According to the U.S Consumer...

Are you attending Alaska Sea Grant’s Young Fishermen’s Summit in Anchorage, December 6-8? We hope so! AMSEA will be there to provide a...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in collaboration with the SafetyNet Centre for Occupational Health and...

Next month we will bid a fond farewell to Coral Pendell, our Course Coordinator. A skilled craftsperson, Coral is leaving AMSEA to...

The summer edition of Marine Safety Updates, our quarterly newsletter, is now available for download. In this issue: Time Out: Fishing...