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Boating Education Officers with Transport Maritime. Video supplied.

An inflatable lifejacket self-service clinic will be held on Friday 19 March 2021 at Fishery Creek Boat Ramp, West Ballina.

This clinic is one of a series that Transport for NSW Maritime are running across NSW from March-May 2021.

Level 100 inflatable life jacket. Photo supplied.

Boating Education Officers will be conducting free sessions for the boating public, promoting overall awareness of inflatable lifejacket servicing requirements and providing step-by-step instruction on the self-servicing process.

Each clinic is delivered under a Transport for NSW CovidSafe Plan and follows current NSW Health safety guidelines and capacity limits.

Participants will be eligible to receive free replacement parts for their inflatable lifejacket, or a $15 voucher that can be used towards the purchase of a lifejacket or self-service parts at a participating store.

For more information and to register, visit roads-maritime.transport.nsw.gov.au/lifejacket-clinics.

If you can’t make it to the clinic in person, there’s an Inflatable Lifejacket Self-Service Clinic livestream video from Transport for NSW Maritime below:


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