TAFE gets refitted training vessel

TAFE Gippsland is now using a former EPA vessel to conduct maritime training. The 12m aluminium catamaran bar-ba-ka was built in 2015 and launched to support the Environmental Protection Authority’s marine monitoring program in Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, and Gippsland Lakes in April 2016. Funded to the tune of $877,000 by the Victorian Government, and replacing a boat built in 1946, the vessel has been upgraded with new water quality and navigation equipment to ensure TAFE students have access to the latest technology during their training. It will be based at the Seamac Campus and used by students in maritime courses as well as training in laboratory skills, STEM and conservation. “We are the sole provider of maritime training in Eastern Victoria and the ‘barba-ka’ will be an important…

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