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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 swells over the...

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 tr...

Ghost Diving Spain 2022 Results

The 2022 campaign in Ghost Diving Spain has resulted in very positive figures, even more if we compare them with the previous campaign and the difficulties we have encountered this year such as inflation or lack of supply of Helium. Thanks to the 28 volunteers who have been working actively we ha...

UK Ghost Divers assemble at St Abbs for pot retrieval

In October Ghost Diving UK found themselves creating more bonds with Scottish fishermen as they helped with recovering more creels which have been lost for around 12 months. On a Saturday the team met in St Abbs, as this was the closest place to Cove where we could launch the team rib. Headi...

Illegal fishing net retrieval, Mahanga Bay New Zealand

We had just finished out last public clean-up of the year, people had given up there Saturday to help clean up the harbour. To find out that we had another mission. One of the locals had found ~40m net discarded, unlabeled (which is illegal) and still catching animals. We sent out the call and wi...

Illegal fishing gear ends up ghost fishing in Cyprus

Every dive for us is a scouting attempt for ghost nets or left behind fishing equipment that could cause harm to the environment. During one of our regular dives, at one of our favorite dive sites, rich with marine life, healthy Posidonia oceanica grass, marine animals such sea turtles, comm...

Why our operations in Rügen are so important

Located at the far easterly border of Germany, the peninsula Rügen in the Baltic Sea is a pristine location and a nearly perfect spot for Ghost Diving Germany. Several well sheltered harbours provide the necessary infrastructure and many wrecks are accessible within short range, so it is no wound...

Ghost Diving USA Surveys Farnsworth Bank & Midnight Hour

Location: Farnsworth Bank and The Midnight Hour wreck - Catalina Island, California On October 10th, 2022 the Ghost Diving USA team set out to survey two target sites. The objective of these surveys is to collect data and images that will help the teams evaluate the impact the net is having ...

More ghost gear surveys on USS Moody, California

On September 10th, 2022, Ghost Divers set out to survey the wreck of the Moody off the Port of Los Angeles, California, USA. The Moody is a Wickes-class destroyer that is 314 feet long that was commissioned in December of 1919 and assigned to the pacific fleet. She was decommissioned in June 1930...

‘Return to Ithaca’, part of a Discovery Channel series on circular economy

Back to Blue, Value the Oceans Hyundai helped us to carry out our largest clean-up ever off the coast of the Greek island of Ithaca in 2021. The first episode of the new documentary series follows us as we returned to Ithaca one year later. The goal this time was to remove the remaining wast...

Dutch Team targets North Sea shipwreck "Vaderdag"

For the past decade, our North Sea teams we have mainly focused on cleaning up a shipwreck that had been nicknamed "Rode Poon". This name, referring to a species of fish, was given to it by fishermen as the wreck was still unidentified after all these years. The wreck has been heavily polluted ov...

Podcast: Lobster Pot Recovery After Storm Arwen

In the winter of 2021, an unusually powerful cyclone called Storm Arwen wreaked havoc on the United Kingdom, Ireland, and France. In Scotland alone, on land, it was estimated that over 8 million trees were damaged or affected by the storm. The damage was no less under the water. Andrew Jack, a fi...

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 success and easy access 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 wrecks to explore thei...

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 history and provides some fantastic...

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 deepest point, the net sat at 43 m, drap...

Ghost Diving Greece & GGGI Report: Coasts Untangled

Coasts Untangled 17 sites visited across Attica & FthiotidaAerial surveys covered a total of 15.23 km221’041 images collected across this areaThe full number of nets in the images are still being calculated, but we are expecting numbers in the vicinity of 505 scuba diving transects were ...

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 depth of 60 m from the seabed wher...

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 t...

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 result of a fish ...

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