Tampakan deal looms for Christmas Nov 11, 2009
He wouldn't be doing it unless he had some good news to pass on, presumably about commissioning progress at the group's Longtom gas/condensate project in Bass Strait. Some good news from Nexus will be a welcome change from the last 12 months. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Boring holiday tales Nov 10, 2009
Try cycling the length of the country alone, or paddling a kayak across Bass Strait, and no-one gives a damn - because they cannot relate, and all the actions OS, innit. If a work colleague's friend visits London for a week, everyone wants to know. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Season's heatings to one and all Nov 8, 2009
45pm in the city and is expected to top 30 each day until Wednesday, when a weak front from Bass Strait will barely ease the heat to a top of 27. The last time Melbourne had four days above 30 in a row in the first half of November was in 1902. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
It seems impossible that an albatross chick could hold 306 different pieces of plastic in its stomach. Unfortunately, it isn't. Nov 4, 2009
A shy albatross found on a Bass Strait island with a fishing hook piercing its gullet ... The shy albatross pictured was found on a Bass Strait island recently. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Strengthening oil price puts heat among minnows Oct 19, 2009
It's for that reason that there was more than passing interest in 3D Oil's (ASX: TDO) revelation that its Felix prospect in Bass Strait permit Vic P57 has the potential to contain up to 100 million barrels of recoverable oil. The prospect - and that is all it is at this stage - lies between the producing Moonfish oilfield and the Wirra oil discovery of the Esso/BHP partnership in Bass Strait ... It has called in energy advisers Core Energy to help bring in a partner to fund the drilling of... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Australians: Origins to Eureka Oct 15, 2009
LATE in the torrent of stories that makes up this rumbustious history, Thomas Keneally tells the tale of a meeting on Waterhouse Island in Bass Strait about 1852. The escaped Irish political prisoner Thomas Francis Meagher, waiting on the island to rendezvous with an American vessel, "one morning saw an eight-oared boat arriving from the direction of the Tasmanian mainland. It was full of escaped convicts from Hobart they had stolen the cutter and were on their way to the gold rush in Port... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Stefan's one tip for prolonged business success Oct 8, 2009
The emigrant from Lebanon is known throughout Brisbane by his first name, having attracted attention for his jet boat racing feats (including setting a record for crossing Bass Strait in his hard-to-ignore pink boat). He also rescued the Sky Needle after Expo 88, moving the iconic structure to the South Brisbane headquarters of his growing business empire from which it emits a nightly light show. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Old Warship sunk off Victoria's coast Oct 4, 2009
The 4100 tonne frigate went down in an area of Bass Strait inhabited by about 46 other wrecks, known as the Ship's Graveyard. The HMAS Canberra was originally scheduled to be scuttled on September 12 but the event was postponed because of poor weather conditions. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Australian cat strays 2,400 miles Sep 17, 2009
But no one has a clue how Clyde managed the 185-mile sea journey across the Bass Strait from Tasmania off mainland Australia s southeast coast, and then about 2,000 miles overland to Cloncurry, deep in the arid interior of the Outback. A transport company returned the cat to Hobart for free - flying most of the way. (Boston Globe)
Saturday TV: The Great Outdoors Aug 28, 2009
Meg's love of Stanley may be constant but tonight's show is as bumpy as Bass Strait. Rugby Union: Australia v South Africa. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Diversified Renewables -- Florida Looks to Mine Ocean Energy Aug 27, 2009
The channel cross section changes by a factor of over 100 to 1 as the Southern Current approaches the shallow waters around King Island in the Bass Strait off Southern Australia and bya factor over 70 to 1 as it approaches the shallow waters of Foveaux Strait off southern New Zealand. There may be a way of installing some kind of barrier along sections of the Florida Keys to suficiently accelerate a section of the Gulf Stream to allow for viable operation of hydrokinetic turbines in at region. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Rare Whales Birth in Australia for 1st Time in 200 Yrs Aug 25, 2009
Earlier yesterday there was another report of a Southern Right whale giving birth at Cape Barren Island in the Bass Strait to the north of Tasmania; however this is yet to be confirmed by scientists. Marine biologist David Pemberton said the confirmation that the recently sighted calf was born in Tasmanian waters was critical to the ongoing recovery of the species, of which there are approximately 1,500 that migrate to Australia each year out of the estimated 60,000 in the world. (Fox News)
New start for HMAS Canberra as shipwreck Aug 24, 2009
The scuttling of the 4100-tonne former guided-missile frigate will start its transformation into an artificial reef near 46 other wrecks in an area of the Bass Strait known as the Ships' Graveyard. This is like winning Tattslotto,'' said John Lawler, president of the Victorian Artificial Reef Society, a divers' group that lobbied for the ship to be sunk in Victorian waters. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Exxon chief won't quibble about how much it adds up to Aug 22, 2009
The prospect of sequestering carbon in Bass Strait, from which Exxon has been producing oil and gas for 40 years, is further off. We are looking carefully at that. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
More Bass Strait production: ExxonMobil Aug 17, 2009
ExxonMobil Australia is targeting at least another 30 years of oil and gas production at its Bass Strait project, with two new fields yet to come online. The energy giant said its operation at Bass Strait, off Victoria, had far outlasted its original life expectancy of 25-30 years set in 1969 ... So far Bass Strait has produced almost four billion barrels of crude oil and seven trillion cubic feet of natural gas, ExxonMobil Australia chairman John Dashwood says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Good thing Dave does double duty Aug 4, 2009
In 2005, while he was somewhere off Cape Barren Island in Bass Strait without a satellite phone Nolan could reasonably have hoped he could enjoy the scenic trip to Hobart, until Allco Equity and Barloworld found themselves scrapping onshore. The previous year, Nolans boat Isabella performed a turnaround of its own, after having to retire in Eden, thanks to heavy seas. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
The Big Fella: rise of a global miner Jul 31, 2009
The discovery of oil in Bass Strait did the same thing in the 1960s as did the finding of iron ore in the Pilbera of Western Australia. In the 1980s, it was the purchase of Utah Coal and the development of the Escondida copper deposit in Chile. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
David Bartlett Jul 19, 2009
The fibre optic string of the electricity cable running across Bass Strait to Tasmania has been commissioned. Adam Cooper12. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Stephen Conroy Jul 18, 2009
The fibre optic string of the electricity cable running across Bass Strait to Tasmania has been commissioned. Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has dismissed suggestions the government's planned national broadband network will cost more than $43 billion. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Nick Minchin Jul 18, 2009
The fibre optic string of the electricity cable running across Bass Strait to Tasmania has been commissioned. Phillip Coorey Chief Political Correspondent12. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
The hydrogen revolution Jul 5, 2009
Hydrogen may be the most abundant element in the universe, but you can't go out into Bass Strait and drill a hydrogen well: hydrogen always combines with other elements when left to its own devices. So you have to manufacture it by breaking down the substances - such as water, coal or gas - where it is stored. (The Age, Australia -- Features)
Swell time to tuck into iconic Tassie scallops May 31, 2009
Bass Strait fishermen will harvest 2650 tonnes of the scallop, valued about $5 million, when the fishery off the north coast of Tasmania reopens tomorrow ... The Tasmanians will spend up to 14 hours, the Victorians about 10 hours, sailing into the middle of Bass Strait where the fishery is located, while enduring the high swell and the famous "Roaring Forties" to harvest the scallops ... "As you're cooking scallops on the barbecue or seasoning them in the kitchen, spare a thought for the fishers... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Dangerous waters Apr 14, 2009
Before setting his sights on crossing the Tasman Sea, he had paddled 850 kilometres to the Antarctic rim, crossed Bass Strait three times and the Gulf of Carpentaria once. He set off for New Zealand from Tasmania in January 2007, despite the warnings of colleagues and authorities and having been forced to abandon a similar attempt months earlier. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
U.S. WWII shipwreck found off Australia's coast Apr 8, 2009
The MV City of Rayville, a freighter carrying a cargo of lead, wool and copper from Australia to New York, sank in the Bass Strait after striking a German mine on Nov. 8, 1940, a year before the United States entered the war ... The Rayville was the second ship to be sunk by one of 100 German mines laid in Bass Strait. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Wreck of first US ship sunk in WWII seen Apr 2, 2009
AFP/File Scattered clouds over Bass Strait off southern Australia ... The City of Rayville was en route to Melbourne when it struck a mine in a newly-laid German minefield in the Bass Strait on November, 8 1940, going down in 70 metres (230 feet) of water off Cape Otway. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Sonar science uncovers grim wartime secret Apr 1, 2009
The Germans laid 100 mines in Bass Strait using the tanker Passat. The City of Rayville became the second ship destroyed in 24 hours, after the British steamer SS Cambridge hit a mine off Wilsons Promontory. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Troubled star Mar 15, 2009
See all the action from Hamish s voyage across Bass Strait that turned into a living hell. PARTY PEOPLE. (The Age, Australia)
Parading on Phillip Island Mar 11, 2009
Perched off the Island s South West corner in Bass Strait is Seal Rocks, home to a colony of over 20,000 Australian Fur Seals. The Nobbies Centre is the Island s newest attraction, where visitors can view the seals using state-of-the-art interactive cameras that focus both above and below water. (Suite101.com)
Charges over Rihanna 'assault' Mar 6, 2009
The boys face 8 metre waves in Bass Strait. PARTY PEOPLE. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Mass whale stranding in Tasmania Mar 2, 2009
The mammals have stranded themselves on King Island, in the Bass Strait between the mainland and the southern state of Tasmania. Reports say about 140 out of nearly 200 whales have already died. (BBC News)
Smoke covers Melbourne Feb 14, 2009
Richard Carlyon, senior forecaster with the Bureau of Meterology, said northerly winds on Friday night had pushed the haze far out into Bass Strait, meaning today's sotherlies were blowing the smoke back over the city rather than clearing it. He said the settled conditions would keep the smoke hanging over the city probably until Friday. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Riesling makes the grade in a sparkling Tassie line-up Feb 8, 2009
Tasmanian rieslings are often overlooked when Australia's best regions are discussed, the only explanation being the relative paucity of Tasmanian wines of any variety making it across Bass Strait, although the rightful recognition of its superlative pinot noirs make even that explanation somewhat thin. Be that as it may, rieslings yielded six of the 14 trophies on offer, pinot noir only five (including the People's Choice Trophy from the public tasting that went to the gold medal-winning 2006... (The Australian)
