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Three tons of fish farm nets recovered in Patroklos, Greece

December 2021 brought us again to Patroklos, a small island in the Attica region. The island has great historical and archeological value and belongs to the NATURA 2000 Network of Protected Areas. We started projects there back in 2016 with Ghost Diving Greece because there are many many fis...

Ghost Gear cleanups Cavo Greco Marine Protected Area, Cyprus

At the end of November, we seized the opportunity to resume our recently launched surveys in Cyprus. This country, located in the east of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounded by clear blue seas, has of course suffered a lot in recent decades under the pressure of, among other activities, fishing....

UK Ghost Gear Coalition Formed to Reduce Diving Team Response Time

Abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), otherwise known as ghost gear, has been receiving more and more attention in recent years. Scientific reports indicate that ghost nets are the deadliest form of marine plastic pollution, killing millions of marine animals. Thankfully,...

British team helping in heritage project

British North East GUE "Ghost Divers" have recently been targeting shipwrecks along the coastline between Newcastle upon Tyne and Stock upon Tees. This area has just been awarded National Lottery Heritage Funding to explore hidden heritage within the area. One of the many projects being funded is...

Photogrammetry Ghost Diving UK North Sea

Photogrammetry. It’s the new ‘buzz’ word within the diving world and I am sure most of you will have heard of it by now. This modern technique allows for 3D models of the marine environment to be created, and this can be shared post dive. Whilst this technique allows for the generation of detaile...

The worst conditions are the best teachers

On the weekend of October 9, we set out with Aquila Charter to continue our cleanup efforts on the SS Trevier. This wreck, which we've been diving on for over 10 years and even identified in 2019, is still heavily polluted by decades of fishing after all these years. We had a team of 10 dive...

Divers lift fishing net weighing 450 KG from reef in Tossa de Mar

Healthy Seas, together with Ghost Diving Spain, organised an event from October 1-3 in Tossa de Mar. The volunteer diving team has been operating since 2014 and recently started a cooperation with Healthy Seas, recording ten sea cleanup projects together over the past few months. On October ...

Ghost Diving annual Volunteer Day 2021

September 25th, after an absence due to the COVID19 pandemic last year, we recently had our annual Dutch Ghost Diving Volunteer Day, which is all about having fun and meeting each other outside of our projects. The day started with a dive together in our “home lake” Vinkeveense Plassen with our p...

Continuation of regular cleanup SS Trevier with Omroep West TV

In between our exciting main projects, our regular cleaning activities on our Dutch North Sea also continue. On September 18, we returned to the SS Trevier, a large shipwreck that has accumulated large amounts of different types of fishing gear on the seabed for decades. This time we had the broa...

Scientific analysis of ghost nets undertaken in the North and Adriatic Seas

Ghost Diving and Healthy Seas in collaboration with Wageningen University & Research embarked on a pilot initiative, to determine the ecological impact and sources of ghost nets recovered by volunteer divers in the North and the Adriatic Seas. A better understanding of these issues will ultim...

Preliminary results of scientific activities at abandoned fish farm in Greece

In June 2021, we carried out our biggest cleanup to date in collaboration with Healthy Seas. In 8 days, our team removed 76 tons of litter of an abandoned fish farm, from the seabed and coast of the Greek island Ithaca. Through this project we were able to not only make the environment healthier ...

300KG of ghost nets were removed from wrecks in the German North Sea

Surveys by wreck divers around the island of Norderney showed pollution from fishing activity is affecting the ecosystem of the German North Sea. Three of the many shipwrecks lying on the seabed in the area were revisited during 13-16 September and were cleared of 300 kgs of ghost fishing nets. ...

Trawler net recovered from MV Sirabuen shipwreck

Last year, 17 May 2020 to be more precise, we conducted a survey on the shipwreck MV Sirabuen, which rests at 22m depth in the Dutch North Sea off the coast of IJmuiden. Here we found a complete trawl net, lost because it had snagged on parts of the wreck and was largely visible above the sandy b...

Ghost Diving UK lifts trawler net from SS Mars shipwreck

On the 11th July 2021 the Ghost Diving UK north team were heading out to survey a local wreck known as the “dirty wreck” i.e. the firelight, which is renowned by local fisherman for having a lot of recreational fishing gear snagged on it. Unfortunately, local fisherman were over the wre...

Lebanon's biggest ghost gear cleanup till date

Once again, it was time to hit the water, another duty call, another location, another epic mission in the warm Mediterranean waters of the Lebanese coastline. After rigorous scouting, the ghost diving Lebanon team in collaboration with the marine conscious minds at North Coast Divers, have ...

Teaming up with legendary explorer Mario Arena in Italy

We teamed up with legendary underwater explorer Mario Arena who has been scouring the international and high seas for archeological artifacts since 1994. During June 27 – July 22, Mario and a team of 14 volunteer divers from The Society for the Documentation of Submerged Sites (SDSS) explore...

Ghost gear surveys in Tynemouth UK

Recently, Ghost Diving UK has been running surveys North and South of Tynemouth in the region of 20-45m. We have Identified a large trawler net by pure chance we couldn't dive our intended target as it was fouled by some recreational fisherman who stubbornly remained on the spot, we shifted ...

MV MAKO’s maiden ghost gear recovery voyage

The meet MAKO event in IJmuiden was wrapped up in style with MAKO’s maiden ghost net recovery voyage. Our volunteer divers descended to 22meters at the Breydon Widgeon wreck in the North Sea to recover a huge trawler net that was covering parts of the wreck together with pieces of recreational fi...

Meet MAKO in IJmuiden

On July 22-25, friends and partners of Healthy Seas, Herpetofauna Foundation and We Are Nature, gathered in the Netherlands for a celebratory event. The long programme included a 2-day cleanup of the beautiful beach of IJmuiden, stepping on ‘MAKO’, our first ghost net recover vessel and meet...

Regular ghost gear maintenance SS Trevier & REM3

On July 18, the Dutch team returned to the S.S. Trevier for regular maintenance dives, this is the perfect opportunity for us to train with new volunteer divers to gain experience, as we know this dive site very well and have been working here for years to get it clear of debris. In conjunction w...

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