The Australian Maritime College (AMC) is establishing a second AMC DP Unit following the successful first year of operation of Australia’s first accredited DP training facility at AMC’s Launceston, Tasmania, campus. The new AMC DP Unit will be located in Northbridge, Perth, and the inaugural course is scheduled for 15-19 November, 2010. AMC hopes that a Perth based DP facility will be a more convenient location than Tasmania for many potential trainees who work in the burgeoning offshore oil and gas industry in Western Australia. Also, AMC has a strategy to build a stronger presence in Western Australia generally, and the new DP Unit is likely to be just the first of similar moves by AMC over the next couple of years.