Healthy Seas Web lab: Ghost Gear From Retrieval to Root Cause At its core, the relationship between divers and fishermen is key when it comes to the global fight against ghost gear. Without communication and collaboration, the dump and retrieval cycle is bottomless. Two figures who are behind forging those connections, building trust between…
Craypot recovery Taputeranga Marine Reserve, New Zealand The Taputeranga Marine Reserve was officially opened on the South Coast of Wellington, New Zealand in September 2008, cov ers 855 hectares and includes all foreshore along its northern face. Being a Marine Reserve, removal of any life from the area is prohibited. On 5 November 2020, Rob…
Monofilament fishing net removal Chekka Lebanon Ghost Diving Lebanon’s chapter started the year on the right foot despite the pandemic and the issues that have been following everyone for the past year. “Extreme times” is how we describe or define what the globe has been passing through, nevertheless the fight to pursue ocean clean-ups and…
Q&A with Ghost Diving founder Pascal van Erp Our founder, Pascal van Erp, has been interviewed by Scuba Diver Magazine for their recurring Q&A column. The questions that were discussed are of course about Ghost Diving, our partner organization Healthy Seas and the history behind all this. But this time also some questions of a personal nature. The…
Generous donation received from TenneT and HSM Offshore Recently, our Dutch diving team received a generous donation from TenneT and HSM Offshore B.V. Both organizations are working with contractors on Safety with their Safety Incentive Program. Together with contractor HSM Offshore, they raised an amount that has been allocated to charities to encourage safe working. During the construction…
Ghost Diving is back in the UK After a brief absence last year, several British technical divers have regrouped and re-established a Ghost Diving chapter in the United Kingdom. It will be dealt with more thoroughly from the start, so there will be two teams within Ghost Diving United Kingdom, each operating in their own area…
Ghost Diving launches chapter in Hong Kong We have fantastic news! We are further expanding our global mission in Asia and are welcoming chapter Ghost Diving Hong Kong to our international teams. This very enthusiastic chapter is coordinated by GUE diver Dan Sun. She approaches ghost net removal operations with the mentality of uncompromising teamwork on…
Dahab: Project Tire(d) In a continuous effort to serve our community and to serve our seas, Ghost Diving Egypt kicked off the year by spending two days recovering 34 tires that had been dumped just off the reef at one of our beloved local dive sites here in Dahab. And this is only the…
First European cleanup for 2021 in the Adriatic Happy to announce that the first European chapter to do a retrieval in 2021 was Ghost Diving Adriatic! In the weekend of 16-17 January, five divers working in challenging weather conditions managed to clean-up 250 meters of gill nets and a few cages while also rescuing several…