(Ghost) fishing in the Korean South Sea Our Korean chapter invited us to run a cleanup project in the South Sea (Namhae), and of course we wouldn’t say no. South Korea is a beautiful country, with friendly, highly motivated people. And of course we are also very curious about the situation on the ground regarding…
Lake conservation: Ohrid Lakes, but actually freshwater in general, are not very common locations for our divers in our field. It was even more special to run a cleanup project in one of the oldest and most iconic lakes in Europe, both on the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves and on the UNESCO World…
10 Years of Ghost Diving It was late 2012 when we decided that conservation diving, and in particular the focus on removing lost fishing gear, had to be approached in an effective and, in particular, safer way. Ghost Diving was founded by a small group of enthusiastic technical divers in the Netherlands. We first…
“The Dutch” support Ghost Diving UK volunteers in cleaning up the SS Mars On the 29th of July 2023, a team of incredible volunteers from Ghost Diving UK and Ghost Diving NL came together for a noble cause – to lift a massive “ghost net” from the depths of the North Sea. The abandoned…
Ghost Diving Poland supports Operation Spöknät in Sweden In July 2023 the total of five members of Ghost Diving Poland together with other divers, volunteered in a project organized and managed by GUE Sweden – Operation Spöknät. The project was launched in 2019 to map and remove ghost nets from the waters around Sweden, including the Baltic…
First clean-up of SS Pelagosa, Croatia SS Pelagosa was an Austro-Hungarian armed ship sunk by an Italian submarine off the island of Grujica, Croatia, in February 1918. It was about 50 meters long and 6 meters wide and it rests in navigational position on the seabed 52 meters below the surface. The shipwreck is almost…
Survey mission at Arrow Point USA Team Ghost Diving USA set out aboard the Giant Stride for a survey mission at Arrow Point. The primary objective for the first dive was to collect GPS and depth data for lobster traps that were previously reported to be there by a few team members. The secondary objective was…
Massive Effort to Protect the Environment and Historical Wrecks Takes Place off Lampedusa During an eight-day expedition that wrapped up on June 29th, volunteer divers from five countries removed ghost gear from ships sunken during WWII in the Mediterranean Sea between Italy’s Lampedusa Island, and Tunisia. Healthy Seas teamed up with Ghost Diving and SDSS for a…
Ghost Diving Germany at the Baltic Sea again In June 2023 Ghost Diving Germany went out again, operating from Fehmarn at the Baltic Sea, again. Fehmarn is a pristine location for net raids as it provides access in all directions and has seen intensive fishing in past times, so there are plenty of nets…
Ithaca clean-up documentary “Best Environmental Film” at Cannes World Film Festival The recently released documentary about our legendary project Journey to Ithaca 2021 has been awarded “The Best Environmental Film” at the Cannes World Film Festival! We are beyond honored that this unprecedented cleaning is inspiring an international audience! We especially thank Michael Westreicher, coordinator of Ghost Diving…