Marine Safety SA July 2025 Newsletter
- Marine Safety SA newsletters sailing to quarterly editions
- NAIDOC week 2025 - Family fun day at Murray Bridge
- Riverland and Yorke Peninsula Field Days
- Free Resources
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Marine Safety SA newsletters sailing to quarterly editions
The Marine Safety SA newsletters are charting a new course.
To ensure we are sharing seaworthy content that you will find most valuable, we are shifting to a quarterly schedule after this edition. This means while you will hear from us a little less often, our future editions will be full steam ahead with timely safety reminders and latest stories.
This new approach will allow you more time to access the key article links before receiving your next newsletter and to make content more topical and relevant.
We would never leave you high and dry though! If you haven’t already, make sure you hop aboard our Marine Safety SA Facebook page. It’s still on deck with regular news throughout the year.
We love sharing tips and tales with you and will continue to use these newsletters to keep you across:
- latest news
- current boating safety messages
- attendance at boating safety events
- marine safety compliance activities
- boating-related law changes
- boating infrastructure updates
- marine safety videos.
At times we may share news outside of our usual schedule, so keep an eye out for our special issues. A special issue may be used when there are key dates in the boating season (such as long weekends) or if there is a legislation change, event, unexpected significant hazard or a SA Recreational Boating Safety Strategy update.
Your next newsletter will drop anchor in your inbox by October 2025.
Events
NAIDOC week 2025 - Family fun day at Murray Bridge
Photo (above): Nash from Marine Safety SA at the NAIDOC Week - Family Fun Day Murray Bridge
National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Week celebrations began on Sunday, 6 July 2025.
NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians to celebrate, recognise and learn about the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Marine Safety SA officers Alicia and Nash celebrated NAIDOC Week by attending the Family Fun Day at the Murray Bridge Showgrounds.
Cold and windy weather was not enough to prevent a healthy crowd gathering and enjoying all that was on offer.
The team provided lifejacket maintenance tips to boaters who brought their lifejackets along and engaged with hundreds more at the event.
The team also gave away plenty of our Marine Safety SA branded tote bags, sports drink bottles and children’s activity books.
Upcoming Events
Riverland and Yorke Peninsula Field Days
The Marine Safety SA team will be attending the Riverland Field Days on 12 and 13 September and the Yorke Peninsula Field Days between 30 September and 2 October.
These events provide a valuable opportunity for our team to help raise awareness of boating safety and share helpful tips with boaters.
The team will once again be part of the local children’s trails, providing participants with their very own Marine Safety SA sports drink bottle.
The team will also be conducting Stay Afloat lifejacket maintenance clinics. Bring your lifejacket along and make sure it is up to standard with replacement parts provided free of charge. You can also learn how to fit and size lifejackets.
Everyone visiting us at the upcoming Field Days can collect free boating safety educational materials including our popular Marine Safety SA stickers. There will also be the chance to go into the draw to win a lifejacket.
So come along to the Field Days and say hello to the team! We are always ready to answer your boating safety questions.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Education
Free Resources
Photos (above): Marine Safety SA online store and stay safe on the water retailer poster
Whilst we might be shifting to a new quarterly schedule, our Marine Safety SA online store is still available year round for boating stickers and educational material.
These stickers provide quick and easy access to safety equipment checklists and Marine Safety SA online tools, so you can access essential information on the water.
The following stickers are available free of charge:
- Safety equipment checklist – recreational vessels under 8 metres
- Safety equipment checklist – recreational vessels over 8 metres
- QR code to the online safety equipment checking tool
- QR code to the online which lifejacket do you need tool
- QR code to the online report an incident or hazard tool
- QR code to the Marine Safety SA Facebook page
- Buoys, marks and beacons
- VHF marine radio channel
- 27 MHz marine radio channels
- Phonetic alphabet for marine radio
Also available:
- Which lifejacket do you need? brochure
Boat retailers and other boating organisations can also now order our ‘Stay safe on the water’ posters. These posters provide QR code links to our ‘safety equipment’ and ‘which lifejacket do you need?’ checker tools. Use these posters to engage with your customers, club members and the boating public when discussing and choosing the right safety equipment for their needs. Order free stickers here.