Welcome Ghost Diving Lombardy Lakes Exciting news! We are expanding again, this time to the inland waters of the beautiful country Italy, lakes that are summarized by the name “Lombardy Lakes”. Ghost Diving Lombardy Lakes is proudly coordinated by Redento Raimondi and Timo Kleinerüschkamp, both very active with diving in their diving team North Central…
Reclaiming Waters: A Documentary on Abandoned Fish Farms An Unseen Crisis in Our Oceans The growing problem of abandoned fish farms is a crisis that few people know about. Meanwhile, ghost farms are threatening marine ecosystems and coastal communities on a massive scale. Reclaiming Waters: Rescuing Our Seas from Ghost Farms is an abandoned fish…
A Year of Impact and Collaboration: Healthy Seas 2024 Annual Report Our partner in crime, Healthy Seas Foundation, is proud to present Healthy Seas 2024 Annual Report! Therefore we would like to invite you to explore the impactful initiatives and partnerships that have advanced our shared mission. Tackling Ghost Farms in Greece In partnership with…
Back for a cleanup on HMS Perseus Wreck of HMS Perseus HMS Perseus was a British submarine built in 1929. It was one of Great Britain’s most advanced vessels, equipped with state-of-the-art Mark VIII torpedoes. During WWII, she embarked on a mission to deliver critical supplies to Malta. It tragically struck an Italian mine near…
Final 2024 Operation Ghost Farms Cleanup A Collaborative Effort of Clean-ups, Education, and Community Engagement to Address Marine Pollution in Abandoned Fish Farms in Western Greece October 31st, 2024 – Western Greece – Healthy Seas, in partnership with Hyundai Motor Europe and other partners, has concluded its year-long “Operation Ghost Farms – Reclaiming Waters”. This…
Ghost Diving Southeast Asia is launched Exciting news! We are expanding further, because with every action we confront the fact that it is desperately needed. We would therefore like to itroduce you: Ghost Diving Southeast Asia. With this brand new chapter, we are expanding our conservation initiatives to a wider area, including the following countries:…
MAKO ‘s first Greek deployment: Ghost Farms Together with our partner Healthy Seas, we intensify the battle against abandoned fish farms, so-called “Ghost Farms” in Greece. Soon after successful MAKO ‘s move, she was immediately deployed on her first mission in Greece. We carried out surveys at various locations in Greece, focusing on the west…
Marine conservation vessel MAKO moved to the Ionian Sea After consulting with our sponsors and partner Healthy Seas, we decided to relocate our marine conservation vessel M/V MAKO. We made this decision based on years of experience cleaning up the Dutch North Sea. Unortunately, the rough, unpredictible weather conditions blocked too many of our planned…
Ghost Diving and NARC volunteers continue cleanups in Egypt Due to the global pandemic and as we said goodbye to our UK chapter beginning of this year, we have not been able to work much more in the UK, nor with British volunteer divers. This changed at the end of 2020 when we were in…
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…