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Next weekend September 24/25, the Ghost Diving Adriatic team will immerse again to clean up several discovered fishing nets in Croatia.

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50m ghost net cleaned-up after lock-down in Egypt

In full COVID-19 lockdown since March 2020, the town of Dahab on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt was so eager to get back to the pristine conditions of the Red Sea. Among those was our Ghost Diving Egypt team. Making use of a 3-day government allowed sea clean-up dives, t...

First dive for Greek team after the lock-down

Two weeks after the Greek government eased the restrictive measures imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, volunteer divers of Ghost Diving Greece returned to the water for another Healthy Seas cleanup! After all, ghost nets were never under lock-down, proof of which is the poor lobster t...

First North Sea ghost net survey of 2020

We are on target! Last Sunday May 17, 2020 our Dutch team did their first North Sea ghost net survey of this year. Exactly as expected we have again located a massive lost fishing net on one of the regular dived shipwrecks . Next dive, the fishing net will be recovered. To be continued!

British organization Ghost Fishing UK separated from Ghost Diving

After four years of collaboration, we have decided to say goodbye to the British charity organization Ghost Fishing UK. This mutual decision came right at the time of our international rebranding to Ghost Diving. The underlying motives have to do with their different goals and thus the path the...

Ghost Fishing changes its name to Ghost Diving to focus on the solution

Ghost Fishing foundation, a well-known charity, is officially re-branding itself as Ghost Diving foundation to make it easier to the public to understand what it does. In 2012, Pascal van Erp founded the Ghost Fishing organisation, a non-profit that works with volunteer divers around ...

Ghost Diving and Greenpeace explore Vema Seamount

Cape Town – A team of Greenpeace activists, Ghost Diving and scientists on board Greenpeace’s iconic Arctic Sunrise have discovered a biodiversity haven on the Vema Seamount, 1 000km off the coast of Cape Town in the South-east Atlantic Ocean.The return of this research expedition concludes the S...

Results of the 2019 Diving Season with Healthy Seas

In the years since Ghost Diving started diving at shipwrecks and removing ghost gear, many diving groups around the world have been inspired and followed our "Dutch" example, establishing Ghost Fishing chapters in the UK, Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, South Korea, New Zealand, Costa Brava, Malta and mo...

Croatia 2019: Wrecks & Nets

We decided to return to Croatia with the Healthy Seas initiative 5 years since we were there last. In 2013 and 2014, with support of Krnica Dive Center, Ghost Diving volunteers cleaned the Argo wreck from top to bottom (bow to stern) and lifted over 3,500 kilos of trawler nets to the surface.&nbs...

Almost 1 tonne of ghost nets recovered from German Baltic Sea

From June 10-12, our team of divers operated for the first time in the German Baltic Sea to retrieve lost fishing gear from the seabed. Despite the unfavorable weather conditions, we were able to pull out 800 kgs of fishing nets, from 28 meters depth. The “catch” will be sent to Norwegian c...

Aeolian Islands: Small island community unites with us for healthy seas and a sustainable tomorrow

We just got back from Lipari, a small island in the Aeolian Archipelago where together with Healthy Seas, the Aeolian Islands Preservation Fund and Blue Marine Foundation we carried out a 6-day long World Oceans Day mission, which resulted in cleaning up 5 tons of ghost nets from the seabed. ...

Less ghostnets, More seahorses

From 18th – 20th May 2019, Healthy Seas will carry out its 2nd mission in Stratoni, a coastal town in Northern Greece, making good on our promise to return to complete cleaning up the seabed of ghost fishing nets. The recovery mission is being carried out in collaboration with Ghost Fishing ...

Ghost Diving volunteer training “Survival at Sea”

Last weekend we welcomed a group of potential new Ghost Fishing volunteers at our volunteer training program. The first part of this program is focusing on “Survival at Sea” procedures and scenario training aimed at technical divers. It was a very successful day that will bring a lot of added val...

2019 North Sea Kick-off: KW-194 / Eben Haezer

Time for some North Sea action! The first weekend of April 2019, the Dutch team performed a Ghost Diving/ Healthy Seas lost fishing gear survey dive in the North Sea, at the wreck of an old fishing vessel KW 194 "Eben Haezer" sunken in 1972. The shipwreck is now colonized by underwater flora and ...

Identity of 102-year-old shipwreck in the North Sea discovered during Ghost Diving mission

The Ghost Diving Foundation has been working all over the world for years to clean up seas and oceans of lost fishing gear. One of our most important operating areas is the Dutch North Sea. A popular dive site in the North Sea is an unidentified wreck which fishermen named "Rode Poon” after the N...

Aeolian Islands: Milestone mission as 3 ton ghost net is removed from the seabed

From October 6-8, an amazing 6-person team of Dutch and Italian Ghost Diving volunteers carried out a ghost net recovery mission off the coast of the Aeolian Islands in Italy. It was organised by Healthy Seas in cooperation with the Aeolian Islands Preservation Fund, Blue Marine Foundation and sp...

57 lost lobster pots pulled out from the seabed in Galway

From September 3-6, supported by Gesellschaft zur Rettung der Delphine (GRD) and Scubadive West, we carried out a first of its kind ghost fishing gear removal operation (Operation “Stone & Pots”) off the W. Coast of Ireland. During operation “Stone and Pots”, our team of 6 expert technical d...

Expanding team and great results at Panago & Rode Poon

Technical divers love projects and lost fishing gear is simply everywhere in the world so there is A LOT to be done. Because of that Ghost Fishing is expanding rapidly all over the world, a classic win-win situation. :) So very often we get requests from divers to join our teams and last weekend ...

Bow net mission HMS E36 North Sea

A typical quote of a Ghost diver: “There is no such thing as too many lift bags” and indeed, last weekend was again a perfect example of that when our Dutch team headed back to the HMS E36, an E-class submarine for the British Royal Navy which sunk in a collision with HMS E43 off Harwich in the N...

ARTE documentary on plastic pollution in the North Sea

One of the first Dutch North Sea cleanup missions of 2018 we had amazing journalists on board tirelessly supporting our work with a full documentary on lost fishing gear and plastic in our seas and oceans. This documentary is released and aired in Germany on ZDF and Arte a few weeks ago, check it...

Healthy Seas & Ghost Fishing final Grantee Vestas 11th Hour Racing

At the last stopover of the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race, team members from Vestas 11th Hour Racing spent the morning on a dive vessel meeting with staff and volunteers of Healthy Seas. This is the final and twelfth grant awarded by 11th Hour Racing during the Volvo Ocean Race, with the team cho...

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