MARF005 Survive at sea using survival craft

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MARF005 ended on 7 July 2018 — 8 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 9 July 2019 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
MAR — Maritime Training Package
Currency period ends
7 July 2018
Latest release
Release 2 · 27 February 2015 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
MARF1006A
Superseded by
MARF030 equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. MARF005Superseded — equivalentSurvive at sea using survival craft
  2. equivalent
  3. MARF030CurrentSurvive at sea using survival craft

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • MARF1006AMARF005equivalent6 October 2013

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • MARF005MARF030equivalent8 July 2018

    Licensing/regulatory information has been incorporated in accordance with Regulatory requirements. Assessment Requirements have been strengthened in accordance with Regulatory requirements.

Is MARF005 on your scope?

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Where MARF005 is used

training.gov.au lists MARF005 inside 17 training products, 2 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MARF005 in that product.

Current products 2 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMARF005 is
MARSS00008Shipboard Safety Skill SetSkill setcore
MARSS00017Coxswains Grade 1 Skill SetSkill setcore

Products no longer current 15 listed

The register still records MARF005 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeMARF005 is
MAR10313Certificate I in Maritime Operations (General Purpose Hand Near Coastal)Qualificationcore
MAR20313Certificate II in Maritime Operations (Coxswain Grade 1 Near Coastal)Qualificationcore
MAR20413Certificate II in Maritime Operations (Marine Engine Driver Grade 3 Near Coastal)Qualificationcore
MAR30115Certificate III in Maritime Operations (Marine Engine Driver Steam)Qualificationcore
MAR30813Certificate III in Maritime Operations (Marine Engine Driver Grade 2 Near Coastal)Qualificationcore
MAR30913Certificate III in Maritime Operations (Master up to 24 metres Near Coastal)Qualificationcore
MAR40513Certificate IV in Maritime Operations (Marine Engine Driver Grade 1 Near Coastal)Qualificationcore
MAR40613Certificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 35 metres Near Coastal)Qualificationcore
SFI10211Certificate I in Fishing OperationsQualificationelective
SFI20111Certificate II in AquacultureQualificationelective
Show the remaining 5 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeMARF005 is
SFI20211Certificate II in Fishing OperationsQualificationcore
SFI20411Certificate II in Fisheries Compliance SupportQualificationelective
SFI30111Certificate III in AquacultureQualificationelective
SFI30211Certificate III in Fishing OperationsQualificationelective
SFI30411Certificate III in Fisheries ComplianceQualificationelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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