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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…