Raiding the Baltic Sea with Ghost Diving Germany During the previous months Ghost Diving Germany did two multiple day dive trips on the Baltic Sea, one to the island of Fehmarn and one tot he bay of Wismar. Both location provide the necessary infrastructure for boat, diving gases and crew which is a crucial factor to…
Premuda, Croatia: Where history meets conservation and innovation During Ghost Diving Adriatic’s latest ghost net cleanup project, a team of 8 divers headed to Premuda island from July 24-27, to clean up 3 shipwrecks lying at 60-65 meters depth, covered in old fishing nets. Divers from all over the world are frequently visiting these…
Ghost Diving UK actively responds on ghost gear reports Over the last few months Ghost Diving UK has received many reports of Ghost gear. As well as reports from divers we have been surveying wrecks from Eyemouth to Tynemouth running out of North Shields and Seaham harbour. The Seaham area has a rich maritime…
Thirty-eight animals released in just one hour in Greece On July 30th, the Ghost Diving Greece team undertook a ghost gear retrieval at Arsida Island, Anavyssos Bay. We set off at 7.30, heading to the site where a net which (we believe) had been previously located & partially removed by Athens Divers. At its…
Ghost Diving Greece & GGGI Report: Coasts Untangled Coasts Untangled 17 sites visited across Attica & Fthiotida Aerial surveys covered a total of 15.23 km2 21’041 images collected across this area The full number of nets in the images are still being calculated, but we are expecting numbers in the vicinity of 50 5…
Croatia: A deep dive to clean the SS Vis From June 19-23, 14 volunteer divers carried out several ghost net cleanups in Istria, Croatia. They focused on both a wreck and a reef where a lot of fishing gear has been lost in recent decades. A sardine net measuring 100 meters was recovered from a…
Creel Pot Operation Burghead successfully completed In Early December 2021, Ghost Diving UK were in Greece collaborating with Healthy Seas as part of Ghost diving’s global mission. We received a call from a Scottish fisherman, Graeme, based in the beautiful Moray Firth. He asked for our help to recover over 600 lobster creels lost as a result of the…
International marine conservation organizations return to Greece, to tackle ghost farms Another massive marine protection effort just wrapped up on the island of Ithaca, in Greece. Last year, the record-breaking cleanup project by Healthy Seas and partners resulted in 76 tons of marine litter being removed from seas and beaches in 8 days. This devastation was the…
Ghost Diving is recipient of the GGGI Small Grants 2022 Ghost Diving, proud member of GGGI since their launch in 2014, is honored to be a recipient of the Global Ghost Gear Initiative small grant 2022. The generous grant of USD 30.000 will be spent entirely on our new innovative project Coasts Untangled, where we will, conduct ghost fishing…
Ghost Diving Germany recovers more than 500kg ghost nets from the North Sea Ghost Diving Germany made their first project in the North Sea of East Frisia 2022 May 2-7. Starting on Monday morning with total flat sea and sunny weather, they have been able to go out for diving all five days. That’s…