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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 liveliho...

Scientific project about ghost nets kicks off in the Adriatic Sea

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 ulti...

Ghost Diving East Med: Growth is inevitable

One sentence we always repeat, “if fishing is active in an area, there is ghost gear too”. Ghost Diving initiatives have augmented globally to race with the amount of ghost nets and discarded fishing gear dispersed in our seas and oceans; therefore, the need for action has capitalized in our t...

Ghost Gear reports activate UKGGC teams

We were in Burgh head on the North East coast of Scotland helping a local fisherman recover over 500 lobster pots lost during storm Arwen. Whilst we were there, we received a call from Derek Anderson, the skipper of an Eyemouth dive charter. Derek had been approached by a St Abbs fisherman, who e...

Ghost Gear research in North Sea winter conditions

It is December 18, the meteorological winter has already started and the water temperature has dropped to about 8 degrees Celsius. Our last North Sea mission was on 9 October and since then we have been anxiously waiting for a beautiful day to set sail with MV MAKO. That day now seemed to have ar...

Ghost Diving UK helps fisherman after Storm Arwen

Storm Arwen helped whip up some of the worst sea conditions in 65 years as a creel fisherman from the North East Scotland requested the help from our Ghost Diving UK North team to recover 400+ pots. We made the first visit early December, at short notice only two divers were available and m...

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...

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