Ghost Net Retrieval Workshop in Greece On April 8-9, Ghost Diving Greece hosted the Ghost Net Retrieval Workshop at the Scubalife Dive Center to encourage qualified divers to learn the skills to safely retrieve abandoned fishing nets. We really enjoyed holding our first workshop to share our love of conservation and preservation of the surrounding seas. With every…
Ghost Gear surveys UK East Coast Over the past few weeks we have conducted some surveys in the British North Sea. Soon we will start recovering the ghost gear that we have located. Seaham Ghost Net Recovery March 26th, our UK team travelled to a previously surveyed mark about 3 miles off the Northeast…
Ghost Diving guest speaker at Diving Safety Conference “Wij Duiken Veilig” On March 25, the third edition of the Dutch conference and network event Wij Duiken Veilig took place, with Ghost Diving as guest speaker. Ghost Diving was already present during the first edition in 2020, and after a virtual edition last year in 2021, of…
Ghost Diving Poland participated in Baltic Sea Protection Days On March 19 and 20, Ghost Diving Poland took part in the Baltic Sea Protection Days, organized by the Aquarium in Gdynia, Poland. Our team of volunteers gave open presentations about the ghost fish problem and both organizations Ghost Diving and Healthy Seas. At the same time, our team…
Intro to Scuba: Ghost Diving Germany x Bracenet >Ghost Diving and BRACENET have been working closely together for a long time. In order to gain even more understanding, recently Ghost Diving Germany organized an intro-to-scuba event for interested Bracenet employees in Hamburg. With the great support of numerous team members, we were delighted to introduce non-divers to the…
Pascal van Erp – Clearing the Ocean of Ghost Nets Our founder Pascal van Erp was recently invited by PADI to participate in their dive stories podcast where they wanted to know all about what we are doing with Ghost Diving and Healthy Seas. In this podcast he tells how it all started with both organizations, their many collaboration partners and what…
Re-branding our organization: Two years later It has been two years since we, as an organization, decided to give ourselves a different, much clearer name, and now it feels as if it has never been different. But, do you remember why we did this? For this, we must go back in time… As a diving team, we…
The results of Healthy Seas 2021 are here! The annual number of Healthy Seas are there! Thanks to the support our volunteers and partners, Healthy Seas made again a great impact in 2021: 188,500 kgs of fishing nets and other marine litter were removed from the sea or prevented from ending up there, starting a circular journey 1250…
Educational Kick-off with Healthy Seas in Athens Kicking off our Healthy Seas educational activities this year, with a special programme in Athens This year’s first educational programme had special meaning. With COVID restrictions being lifted in many countries, we were happy to be able to kick off our activities already in the first quarter, at the…
Back to Burghead Scotland There were still over 300 creel pots and many 100s of meters of rope lost in the Moray Firth, a result of Storm Arwen part of 2021–2022 European windstorm season, we were contacted by local fisherman desperate for assistance in December, the lost creels are devastating to local fisherman livelihoods and are also…