The extremely high price of our eating habits During their first action of 2023, our Ghost Diving Greece volunteers faced a horrific situation when they tried to remove a ghost net from the waters of the Saronic Gulf. An unlucky turtle became entangled in a fishing net, presumably while trying to feed, and subsequently drowned.…
Healthy Seas joins hands with Ghost Diving Hong Kong to remove gill nets In conjunction with World Water Day, Healthy Seas is proud to announce it has expanded its geographic focus and launches activities to Hong Kong. Healthy Seas is an environmental nonprofit organization founded in 2013 that began its marine conservation work in the Netherlands.…
Ghost Diving USA takes care of Tuna Clipper Location: Santa Catalina Island Wreck: The San Vito aka the “Tuna Clipper ” Ghost Diving USA continues their pursuit of ghost nets on the Tuna Clipper. On February 13, divers set out aboard the Giant Stride to collect more net for the Beam Center playground project. Conditions…
“Ghosts” continue to haunt Ithaca You certainly didn’t miss that in 2021 and 2022 we ran two large abandoned fish farming projects from the beautiful island of Ithaca in the Ionian Sea. The results were impressive and with a total of more than 100,000 KG unparalleled in size. While we were active there we…
Impromptu net recovery – Petone Beach, New Zealand While on a morning beach walk, Ghost Diving New Zealand team member Erin Hewetson noticed two large plastic jugs floating close to shore. Knowing this was likely a lost fishing net, Erin called for help from her sister, and they got to work pulling the net ashore. Makeshift…
Ghost Diving Presentation Quebec Canada CANADA 2022 a different continent, a different crowd, but always the same GLOBAL MISSION In the aim of Global Expansion and seeking like-minded people around the Globe, having the same interests in environmental conservation, Ghost Diving EastMed chapter coordinator Imad Farhat had the honor to be invited on the…
Clean-Up with THW Kiel & Bracenet On December 10th a mixed team from Healthy Seas, Bracenet and Ghost Diving Germany supported local sport club THW Kiel with a well-organized Beach & Harbor Clean-Up in Kiel. Healthy Seas and Bracenet did the main organizational part, set up a camp, distributing flyers and information to bystanders and other interested people as well as…
Shark Week in Gdynia Aquarium Poland On 21-27 November 2022 Gdynia Aquarium in Poland organized a “Shark Week”. At this occasion children and their families could participate in multiple educational workshops and games: “Creative Teaching Zone” – sharks identification and physiology workshop; “Owners of the Jaws” – presentation and quiz about the world of sharks; “Cartilaginous…
Recovering creelpots Loch Eriboll Scotland In early November we received a request for some help from local creel fisherman Kyle Farmer who is based at Loch Eriboll in the North of Scotland. He asked for our assistance recovering over 80 of his creels which had been lost after they had unfortunately been dragged in by 40ft…
Drone research vs. marine pollution: 1-0 Led by conservation biologist, Dr Sol Milne of Wolf Fish Ltd. and Ghost Diving Greece Coordinator, Nikos Vardakas, the research project ‘Coasts Untangled’ aims at developing aerial surveying methods to better see into water with rugged & complex bottom topography, coupled with scuba-diving transect surveys in order to locate lost fishing gear,…