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Maritime safety incident statistics

Maritime Safety Victoria

2017-18 Annual Report

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Contents

Maritime safety incident statistics1

Contents3

Introduction4

About this report4

Key findings4

Reporting requirements in Victoria4

Explanatory notes5

Marine incident definition5

Data definitions5

Additional incident data definitions7

Maritime fatalities and serious injuries9

Fatalities9

Serious injuries10

Marine incidents - recreational11

Recreational incidents by incident type12

Recreational incidents by waterway14

Recreational disablements16

Marine incidents - commercial17

Commercial incidents by incident type18

Commercial incidents by waterway19

Incidents by waterway type and location20

Recreational Vessel Registrations21

IntroductionAbout this report

This report provides an overview of the marine incidents that occurred in Victoria during the period 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

The report provides commentary, analysis and trending for this year’s incidents and how this compares with incidents of the three previous years.

Key findings

· During the period 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018 eight marine fatalities resulted from eight recreational vessel incidents.

· Fatalities have increased 33 per cent (6 – 8) compared with 2016-17, however fatalities have decreased 4 per cent when compared with average of the three preceding years.

· Of the fatalities, two involved kayaks, two involved a wakeboard/ski boats one involved a PWC, one involved a 3.8 m open tinny and open 5.8 m vessel and one involved a 10 m yacht.

· Six of the deceased were male and two were female. The deceased ranged in age from 27 to 74.

· There were 16 incidents that resulted in serious injury this season, a decrease of 30.4 per cent compared with the average of the three preceding years.

· Fourteen of the 16 serious injury incidents this season involved recreational vessels and two involved commercial vessels. Half of the recreational vessel incidents that resulted in serious injury involved personal watercraft, and 21.4 per cent (n=3) involved open vessels towing either a wake boarder or ski biscuit.

· Recreational disablements account for 84 per cent of recreational incidents in 2017-18. Overall the number of reported recreational incidents has decreased 4.97 per cent when compared with the average of the three preceding years.

· There were 34 commercial marine incidents in 2017-18, a 41.52 per cent decrease when compared with the average of the three preceding years.

· There have been no fatal incidents involving commercial vessels since 2014-15.

· Sixty-seven per cent of marine incidents (both recreational and commercial) in 2017-18 occurred on Port Phillip Bay and Western Port Bay.

Reporting requirements in Victoria

The following reporting requirements applied to both recreational and commercial vessels during 2017-18.

· Victoria’s marine operators are required to report certain types of marine incidents to the Victoria Water Police under the Marine Safety Act 2010 (Vic) (MSA).

· Under section 173(1)(i) of the Transport Integration Act 2010 (Vic) one of the functions of the Director, Transport Safety, is to ‘collect information and data about, and commission and sponsor research into, transport safety matters’. Transport Safety Victoria (TSV) uses the data it collects from marine operators to monitor trends and safety risks in the marine environment across Victoria, and identify regulatory interventions accordingly.

· Although not a specific legislative requirement, recreational incidents involving a request to Victoria Water Police for search and rescue assistance are reported to TSV by Victoria Water Police through TIMS.

· Reporting requirements apply to commercial vessels under the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012 (the National Law). Sections 88 and 89 in Schedule 1 of the National Law require that both the owner and master of domestic commercial vessel involved in a marine incident report the incident to Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) the national regulator.

Explanatory notesMarine incident definition

The National Marine Safety Data Collection Reference Manual: Data Standards and Definitions for Marine Incidents 18 December 2007 (Reference Manual), defines a marine incident as an event causing or involving any of the following in connection with the operation of a vessel:

1. the death of, or injury to, any person on board a vessel, or caused by a vessel

2. the loss of a person from a vessel

3. the abandonment, loss or presumed loss of a vessel

4. the collision of a vessel with another vessel or with an object

5. the grounding, sinking, flooding or capsizing of a vessel

6. a fire or explosion aboard a vessel

7. loss of stability affecting the safety of a vessel

8. structural failure of a vessel.

Data definitions

Incident data has been codified in accordance with the Reference Manual. For convenience, an extract of the incident type descriptors is included in this document. For further explanation of the concepts, data standards and definitions please read this report in conjunction with the Reference Manual. Table 1 provides a description of the different types of marine incidents that may be reported to TSV.

Table 1: Marine incident data definitions

Type

Description

Collision

A marine incident involving the collision of an operating vessel may include any of the following instances:

a) Collision of vessels

Striking together of two or more vessels, at least one vessel must be in operation or operating; but does not include striking a permanently fixed man-made object.

b) Collision with a fixed object

A vessel striking a permanently fixed man-made object, for example: aid to navigation, overhead bridge, sea walls, or groynes; and does not include striking another vessel.

c) Collision with a floating object

A vessel striking an object that is waterborne and is free to move with tide, current or wind and is visible from the surface of the water; does not include living animals but does include carcasses and does not include striking another vessel.

d) Collision with an animal

Vessel striking a living animal which may or may not be normally found in a marine environment.

e) Collision with overhead obstruction

Any part of a vessel making contact with power lines, or other overhead obstructions suspended above a waterway.

f) Collision with submerged object

A vessel making contact with an object that is waterborne and may be free to move with tide or current and is not visible from the surface of the water e.g.: submerged container, submarine cable. This category does not include groundings.

g) Collision with wharf

A vessel making contact with a wharf/jetty/pontoon/boat ramp and causing damage to the vessel and/or wharf etc.

Grounding

A marine incident involving an operating vessel grounding may include any of the following instances:

a) Grounding (unintentional)

When a vessel unintentionally comes into contact with the bottom of a waterway so that the vessel ceases to be completely waterborne. This includes a vessel, either under command or not under command, running aground, striking or pounding on rocks, reefs or shoals, but not making contact with a beach or grounding intentionally.

b) Grounding (intentional)

A vessel, under command, is put aground intentionally by the operator. An intentional grounding of a vessel is not a reportable marine incident unless the vessel is damaged in some way that makes the incident reportable.

Capsizing

Vessel overturns so that the keel becomes uppermost or the vessel may lie on its side.

Sinking

A vessel becomes submerged and settles below the surface of the water.

Swamping

A vessel fills with water particularly over the side (that is, water is filling from the upper part of the vessel) but retains sufficient buoyancy to remain waterborne. If the vessel does not retain sufficient buoyancy to remain waterborne, the incident type becomes a sinking.

Flooding

A breach of the vessel’s watertight integrity (that is, water filling from the lowest part of the vessel) due to the ingress of water into the vessel. The vessel retains sufficient buoyancy to remain waterborne. If the vessel does not retain sufficient buoyancy to remain waterborne, the incident type becomes a sinking.

Loss or presumed loss of a vessel

A vessel has not returned as stated or intended prior to departure and may be considered to be missing at sea.

Structural failure

Damage to a vessel due to the structural failure of the vessel’s hull, superstructure, engines, machinery or equipment due to such things as metal fatigue, corrosion, broken welds, wood rot, electrical faults, insufficient materials in the construction of the vessel and excessive stress or wear on any component. Examples include dismasting of sailing vessels due to the mast being broken. Does not include flooding or sinking due to a breach of the hull.

Loss of stability

The inadvertent movement of cargo, equipment or other materials which affects the vessel’s ability to return to an upright position when laterally displaced but does not include loss of stability due to swamping or flooding.

Fire

Accidental burning of a vessel’s fuels or their vapours or of any material onboard a vessel.

Explosion

Accidental explosion of any material onboard a vessel including vessel fuel or its vapours.

Person overboard

A person falls from a vessel into the water/sea/waterway.

Onboard injury

A marine incident involving an operating vessel where the incident occurs onboard the vessel may include any of the following instances:

a) Falls within vessel

Person onboard a vessel falls within the confines of the vessel.

b) Crushing or pinching

An incident where a person is crushed or pinched by any part of the vessel or vessel’s machinery because of the operation of the vessel.

c) Other onboard injury

Any other incident onboard a vessel (for example, to a passenger, crew) due to the operation of the vessel; does not include a fall overboard, falls within vessel, or crushing or pinching.

Other personal injury

A marine incident involving an operating vessel may include any of the following instances:

a) Hit by vessel or propeller

Person not onboard a vessel is hit by a vessel or vessel’s propeller, this does not include a fall overboard, skiing or diving incident.

b) Skiing incident

An incident when a person is engaged in water-skiing. Water-skiing includes aquaplaning, knee boarding, wake surfing and any similar towed activity carried out in association with a vessel.

c) Parasailing incident

An incident where a person is engaged in parasailing. Parasailing is an activity utilising a parachute towed by a vessel to enable a person to become airborne.

d) Diving incident

An incident involving an operating vessel and a person engaged in a diving related activity. For the purposes of this document, a diving activity includes diving using surface-supplied breathing apparatus, SCUBA diving, breath-hold diving (also known as free diving or skin diving) and snorkelling.

e) Other incidents caused by an operating vessel

Any other incident involving a person not onboard a vessel (for example, swimmer, surfboard rider) due to the operation of a vessel; does not include a fall overboard, falls within vessel, crushing or pinching, hit by a vessel or propeller, skiing or diving incident.

Additional incident data definitions

TSV collects data regarding three additional ‘near miss’ incident types that do not comply with the definition of a marine incident in the Reference Manual but are useful indicators of risk and decision making. The definition of a close quarters situation is the working definition used by TSV and is now included in both the MSA and National Law legislation. The definition of a disablement and person in trouble is a working definition only. Table 2 provides a description of these additional incident types. Table 3 provides the definition for a recreational and commercial vessel, both terms are used frequently throughout the report.

Table 2: Additional incident data definitions

Type

Description

Close quarters situation

a) at least two vessels pass within proximity of each other such that a reasonable person would in all the circumstances conclude there was a risk of collision by those vessels

b) one vessel passes within proximity of an object such that a reasonable person would in all the circumstances conclude there was a risk of collision by that vessel with that object.

Disablement

A vessel becoming disabled and requiring assistance.

Person in trouble

Person(s) who require assistance because they cannot continue in their vessel unassisted.

Table 3: Other definitions

Vessel type

Description

Recreational vessel*

A vessel used solely for the purposes of recreational or sporting activities and not for hire or reward.

Commercial vessel *

Any vessel that is operated in connection with a commercial transaction of any kind; includes both domestic and foreign vessels.

Serious incidents

Any incidents that conform to the definition of a marine incident in the Reference Manual including: capsizing, close quarters, collision, fire, flooding, grounding, loss of stability, onboard incident, other personal injury, person overboard, sinking, structural failure, swamping and person in trouble.

Serious injury incident

An incident where at least one person receives a serious injury, but ere are not fatalities.

Serious injury

A person involved in a marine incident suffers any injury requiring admission to hospital.

* For a complete definition please refer to the Reference Manual.

Maritime fatalities and serious injuriesFatalities

In 2017-18 there were eight fatalities from eight marine incidents in Victoria, this is a 4 per cent decrease on the previous three seasons. There were six fatalities from six marine incidents in 2016-17, nine fatalities from eight incidents in 2015-16 and ten fatalities from eight marine incidents in 2014-15. Figure 1 shows the number of fatal incidents that have occurred in each of the years shown.

This boating season two fatal incidents involved a kayak compared with four from six in 2016-17, one from nine in 2015-16, and three from eight in 2014-15.

Table 4 below contains data on fatalities that occurred as a result of marine incidents in Victoria. It shows the number of fatalities for each month of each year from 1 July 2014 through to 30 June 2018. The last column shows the total for each year. Two incidents are still under investigation and statistical summaries will be updated when confirmation of the cause has been received. Future marine incident reports will reflect the change if these incidents are determined not to fulfil the definition of a marine incident.

The eight fatalities this year have involved six males and two females, ranging in ages from 27 to 74. None of the operators managed to notify anyone that they needed assistance; authorities were alerted to the incident by:

· a passing vessels personal locator beacon (PLB)

· vessel and/or deceased found,

· family member (the owner was overdue), or

· witness sighting.

Table 4: Marine incident fatalities by month from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018

Year of incident

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Total

2014-15

0

1

0

0

1

2

0

1

0

1

0

4

10

2015-16

1

0

1

4

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

0

9

2016-17

0

0

0

1

2

1

0

0

1

1

0

0

6

2017-18

1

0

0

0

1

2

2

1

0

1

0

0

8

Serious injuries

There were 16 serious injury incidents in 2017-18 requiring a person to be hospitalised, seven less than in 2016-17 (n=23). Fourteen serious injury incidents involved a recreational vessel and two involved commercial vessels (one was a 5 metre Hire & Drive Vessel and the other was a collision between a recreational PWC and a 10 metre Hire & Drive Vessel). The recreational vessel types included:

· seven personal watercrafts,

· three open vessels (one puling a wake boarder and two pulling ski biscuits),

· one cabin cruiser,

· one kite

· one half cabin and

· one kayaker.

Table 5 contains data on marine incidents that resulted in serious injury in Victoria. It shows the number of incidents that occurred in each month of each year since 1 July 2014. The last column shows the incident total for each year. Figure 1 shows the number of serious injury incidents that have occurred in each of the years shown. The number of incidents to result in serious injury has decreased by 30.4 per cent compared with the average of the three preceding seasons.

Of those persons who were injured, four were females and 13 were male (one incident had two seriously injured persons). The sixteen people sustaining serious injuries this season ranged in age from 9 to 70, and the average age of those injured was 34.

Table 5: Marine incident serious injury incidents by month from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2018

Year of incident

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Total

2014-15

1

2

3

0

1

4

7

1

6

1

0

0

26

2015-16

3

0

0

1

1

2

5

3

4

1

0

0

20

2016-17

1

0

1

3

2

2

11

0

2

0

1

0

23

2017-18

0

0

0

6

1

2

2

1

4

0

0

0

16

Figure 1: Number of fatal incidents and serious injury incidents, 2009-10 to 2017-18

Marine incidents - recreational

In 2017-18, there were 1,280 reported marine incidents involving recreational vessels. This is a 0.72 per cent decrease when compared with the average of the three preceding years.

Figure 2 shows the number of recreational marine incidents that occurred each year from 2014-15 to 2017-18. Of the 1,280 recreational vessel incidents this year, 204 (15.93 per cent) were classified as ‘serious incidents’ and 1,076 (84 per cent) were disablements (refer to tables 2 and 3 respectively for the definition of a disablement and serious incident). This graph illustrates that year on year there is very little change between the number of serious incidents, number of disablements and total number of incidents.

The proportion of recreational incidents to result in fatality, serious injury and lost vessel (the three worst possible outcomes of a marine incident) is 2.58 per cent. This compares with 3.39 per cent in 2016-17, 2.97 per cent in 2015-16 and 3.1 per cent in 2014-15.

Figure 2: Recreational marine incidents, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 boating seasons

Recreational incidents by incident type

A number of incident types decreased when compared with the average of the three preceding seasons including: onboard incidents (84.2 %), capsizing (43.10 %), structural failure (14.16 %), flooding (13.54 %), fire (10.04%), grounding (8.95 %), collision (6.25 %), and explosion have

Conversely Swamping (120 %), other personal injury (83.33 %), person overboard (27.27%), person in trouble incidents (16.21 %) incidents have increased compared with the average of the three preceding years. Figure 2 illustrates that although the types of incidents to occur jump around season to season overall the number of incidents classified as serious and the number classified as disablement has remained relatively consistent across each of the years shown.

Of the 11 other personal injury incidents, one was a fatality and six were serious injury incidents requiring hospitalisation. The personal injury incidents involved six vessels towing either a wakeboarder, skier or ski biscuit, two personal watercrafts and two occurrences of persons in the water struck by passing vessels and one kite boarding incident

Table 6 shows the number of incidents by year. The first column lists the incident type and the adjacent columns show the number of incidents that occurred in each year. The last row shows the total for each year.

Table 6: Marine incidents involving recreational vessels, 2014-15 to 2017-18

Incident type

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

Disablement of vessel

1086

1095

1048

1076

Grounding

61

72

69

61

Person in trouble

39

31

41

43

Capsizing

33

46

37

22

Collision

15

15

18

15

Flooding

11

17

9

14

Person overboard

14

12

7

14

Other personal injury

5

4

9

11

Fire

9

5

6

6

Swamping

6

3

6

11

Onboard incident

3

9

7

1

Structural failure

2

2

3

2

Explosion

2

2

3

0

Loss or presumed loss of vessel

3

0

0

1

Close Quarters

0

0

2

1

Loss of Stability

1

0

0

1

Total

1290

1313

1265

1280

Figure 3 shows incidents by month and incident type. It illustrates that this season the most number of disablements (n=192) and serious incidents (n=45) occurred in January followed by December (156 disablements and 24 serious incidents). A closer look at the separate months show that the highest proportion of serious incidents was in March (26 per cent) and the lowest proportion of serious incidents was in Nov (10.53 per cent).

Figure 3: Serious incidents and disablements by month for the 2017-18 boating season.

Recreational incidents by waterway

The majority of the recreational marine incidents occurred on Port Phillip Bay (53.75 per cent, n= 688) followed by Western Port (14.84 per cent, n=190). Table 7 shows the number of recreational marine incidents to occur on each waterway 2014-15 to 2017-18. The first column lists the waterway type and the adjacent columns show the number of incidents to occur on each waterway.

Table 7 Top ten waterways for recreational marine incidents

Waterway name

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

Port of Port Phillip

680

684

624

688

Western Port

244

245

242

190

Corio Bay

76

82

75

65

Lake Victoria

46

43

54

46

Bass Strait - Northern

30

41

51

46

Bass Strait - Western

31

40

42

39

Lake King

28

34

24

32

Bass Strait - Eastern

23

24

30

39

Corner Inlet

19

10

21

26

Reeve Channel & Waters South

10

15

10

15

Other

103

95

92

94

Total

1290

1313

1265

1280

Recreational marine incidents occurred on 37 different waterways this season compared with 44 in 2016-17, 46 in 2015-16 and 39 in 2014-15. This season 23 waterways had fewer than ten incidents recorded and 12 of these only had one recreational incident recorded.

Figure 4: Top ten waterways for recreational marine incidents in 2017-18

Recreational disablements

Recreational disablement incidents are consistent with previous years, the majority of disablements (97.4 per cent) resulted in no damage to the vessel or property, which is the lowest severity rating. Table 8 shows the number of recreational disablement incidents that occurred during each year, 2014-15 to 2017-18.

Table 8: Recreational disablements, 2014-15 to 2017-18

Year

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

Number of recreational disablement incidents

1086

1095

1048

1076

Figure 5 shows the top contributing factors to recreational disablements this year. Of the 1076 recreational disablements 599 contributing factors were identified. The leading contributing factor was ‘equipment – machinery’ (n=232) (this may include: seized engine, engine overheating, lost steering/rudder, water pump issues). This was followed by equipment – electrical (n=141) (this may include: flat battery, wiring or spark plug failure), lack of fuel (n=81) and Lack of Maintenance (n=47) and Other (n=39).

In 2017-18 new data entry rules were introduced and entering a contributing factor was no longer prompted, in 2017-18 there were 1076 disablements and 599 contributing factors were identified. In 2016-17 a contributing factor review showed that of the 1048 disablements, 1011 contributing factors were identified.

Figure 5: Top contributing factors to disablements, 2017-18

Marine incidents - commercial

There were 34 reported commercial marine incidents in 2017-18, a 30.14 per cent decrease compared with the average of the three preceding seasons. Twenty-one incidents have resulted in no damage, seven incidents have resulted in vessel damage, four incidents have resulted in property damage, two incidents resulted in serious injury and no incidents resulted in fatality. Figure 6 shows the number of reported marine incidents involving a commercial vessel. Refer to Table 3 for the definition of a commercial vessel.

Figure 6: Marine incidents involving commercial vessels, 2014-15 to 2017-18

Commercial incidents by incident type

Of the 34 commercial vessel incidents, 23 (67.65 per cent) were classified as serious incidents and 11 (32.35 per cent) were disablements. Table 9 contains data on marine incidents involving commercial vessels only. The first column shows the incident type and the adjacent columns show the number of incidents that occurred in each year. The last row shows the total for each year.

The incident types that have been most common this year are disablements (n=11), collision (n=9), and grounding (n=7).

Table 9: Marine incidents involving commercial vessels 2014-15 to 2017-18

Incident type

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

Disablement of vessel

20

17

17

11

Collision

9

9

5

9

Grounding

8

5

3

7

Close quarters

8

8

4

2

Capsizing

1

0

0

1

Onboard incident

9

6

3

1

Other personal injury

0

0

0

1

Fire

0

1

0

1

Flooding

1

1

0

1

Swamping

0

1

1

0

Structural failure

1

0

0

0

Explosion

1

0

0

0

Person overboard

4

1

2

0

Total

62

49

35

34

Commercial incidents by waterway

The majority of commercial marine incidents occurred on Port Phillip Bay (32.35 per cent) followed by Yarra River-upstream of port (14.7 per cent). Table 10 shows the top ten waterways for commercial marine incidents from 2015-16 to 2017-18. The first column lists the waterway name and the adjacent columns show the proportion of incidents to occur in each year.

Table 10 Commercial marine incidents by waterway name 2014-15 to 2017-18

Waterway name

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

Port of Port Phillip

22

19

14

11

Yarra River, upstream of port

12

7

2

5

Western Port

7

7

3

2

Bass Strait - Western

4

5

3

2

Lake Victoria

5

1

4

1

Bass Strait - Eastern

2

2

1

2

Reeve Channel & Waters South

1

0

2

3

Bass Strait - Northern

1

2

0

3

Cunninghame Arm

2

2

0

1

Lake King

2

2

1

0

Other

4

2

5

4

Total

62

49

35

34

Commercial marine incidents occurred on 13 different waterways this year compared with 13 in 2016-17, 11 in 2015-16, and 14 in 2014-15. In 2017-18 there were also six waterways that had only one incident recorded. Figure 7 shows the top ten waterways for commercial marine incidents in 2017-18.

Figure 7: Top ten waterways for commercial marine incidents in 2017-18

Incidents by waterway type and location

Table 11: Incidents (both commercial and recreational) by waterway type and severity 2017-18

Incident severity

Coastal Inshore

Enclosed

Inland

Total

Damage to property only

0.69%

1.18%

3.77%

1.23%

Fatal incident

0.00%

0.45%

5.66%

0.61%

No damage

87.59%

93.57%

62.26%

91.63%

Other vessel damage

8.28%

3.62%

11.32%

4.45%

Serious injury

1.38%

0.54%

15.09%

1.23%

Vessel lost

2.07%

0.63%

1.89%

0.84%

Total

100.00%

100.00%

100.00%

100.00%

The majority of marine incidents occurred on enclosed waters (84.80 per cent) followed by coastal inshore waters (11.13 per cent). Table 11 shows the proportion of incidents to occur on each waterway type by incident severity for 2017-18. Figure 8 on the next page shows the marine incidents by incident severity plotted geospatially over a map of Victoria.

Recreational Vessel Registrations

There were 195,338 recreational vessels registered as at 30 June 2018. It should be noted that this figure does not capture passive (human powered) vessels, including but not limited to: rafts, stand-up paddle boards, kayaks and canoes. It is unknown exactly how many passive vessels are in Victoria; however, estimates suggest there are at least 350,000 paddle craft being used each year. Table 12 shows a breakdown of registered vessels by vessel type. PWC registrations have experienced the most growth of the recreational vessel categories, doubling in the period 2009 to 2017. In the period 30 June 2017 to 30 June 2018 PWC registrations have increased by 6.33 per cent. Figure 9 shows by local government area where vessels are registered across Victoria (excluding PWC). Figure 10 shows by local government area where PWC are registered.

Table 12: Registered recreational vessels by type as at 30 June 2018

Vessel type

Number of vessels

Open

131468

Half Cabin

28778

Personal Watercraft

22431

Cabin Cruiser

5919

Yacht (Keel Boat)

2769

Trailer Sailer

2172

Hovercraft

862

Houseboat

726

Canoe

213

Figure 8: Marine incidents for the 2017-18 season shown by location and incident severity.

Figure 9: Victorian Recreational Vessel Registrations – all vessel types excluding Personal watercraft shown by local government area

Figure 10: Victorian Recreational Vessel Registrations –Personal watercraft only shown by local government area