The upshot? Bass Strait is shallow. It has an average depth of just 60 metres, presenting risks to less experienced sailors who are used to navigating in deep ocean waters.

On Flinders Island in Bass Strait sits a little-known place, significant to not only Tasmanian and the nation's history, but global history. It's known as Wybalenna and it's a place of deep sorrow ...

Offshore gas supplies are running out in the Bass Strait and there are plans to dismantle some of Esso's ocean gas rigs. But the company's intention to leave parts of them in the sea has sparked ...

Learn how to ice fish for bass with this expert guide! Discover the best locations, essential gear, and winning techniques to catch largemouth and smallmouth bass on frozen lakes this winter.

Exploring the last ice age, when falling sea levels exposed the Bass Strait seafloor in southeastern Australia as a land bridge, enabling people to cross it.

Plans for large-scale seismic surveys in the Bass Strait have raised questions about their effects on marine life, a controversial issue that is still not fully known.

A video shared to Instagram shows Texas angler Grady Codd catching three 6-plus-pound largemouth bass on one cast.

An elusive type of 'walking' fish is believed to have been caught on camera near a remote Bass Strait island, more than 25 years since the last sighting of the species.

Enough material to build 110 Sydney Harbour Bridges is built into Australian offshore oil and gas rigs, and experts are now grappling with how to safely recover it.

ExxonMobil claims some of the giant Bass Strait oil and gas structures were designed never to be removed. ExxonMobil, one of the owners of the Gippsland Basin joint venture Esso Australia, has ...

Offshore gas supplies are running out in the Bass Strait and there are plans to dismantle some of Esso's ocean gas rigs. But the company's intention to leave parts of them in the sea has sparked ...