Ghost Diving Southeast Asia is launched Exciting news! We are expanding further, because with every action we are confronted with the fact that it is desperately needed. We would therefore like to welcome you: Ghost Diving Southeast Asia. With this brand new chapter, we are expanding our conservation initiatives to a wider area, including the…
Ghost Diving helps Healthy Seas and Hyundai in Extensive “Ghost Farms” Operation Addressing Plastic Pollution and Marine Litter from Abandoned Fish Farms: A Comprehensive Mission of Clean-up, Education, and Community Engagement. May 29th, 2024 – Western Greece – Healthy Seas, in collaboration with Hyundai, has successfully inaugurated an extensive clean-up operation targeting abandoned fish farms…
MAKO’s first Greek deployment: Ghost Farms Together with our partner Healthy Seas, we will intensify the battle to protect abandoned fish farms, so-called “Ghost Farms” in Greece, and this is clearly necessary. Soon after MAKO’s move, which was successful, she was immediately deployed on her first mission in Greece, in the hunt for Ghost Farms.…
Marine conservation vessel MAKO moved to the Ionian Sea In consultation with our sponsors and partner Healthy Seas, our loyal marine conservation survey & diving vessel M/V MAKO has moved. The bad weather conditions in the Dutch North Sea, which blocked too many of our planned activities from going ahead, forced us to make this…
Combined forces in Greece Because Greece has a coastline of 13,676 kilometers (8,498 miles), the largest in the Mediterranean, this chapter generally works with a strong combination of international Ghost Diving volunteers, reinforced with local divers. Due to the many diving centers in Greece, we work efficiently with those closest to the target location and…
(Ghost) fishing in the Korean South Sea Our Korean chapter invited us to run a cleanup project in the South Sea (Namhae), and of course we wouldn’t say no. South Korea is a beautiful country, with friendly, highly motivated people. And of course we are also very curious about the situation on the ground regarding…
Lake conservation: Ohrid Lakes, but actually freshwater in general, are not very common locations for our divers in our field. It was even more special to run a cleanup project in one of the oldest and most iconic lakes in Europe, both on the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves and on the UNESCO World…
10 Years of Ghost Diving It was late 2012 when we decided that conservation diving, and in particular the focus on removing lost fishing gear, had to be approached in an effective and, in particular, safer way. Ghost Diving was founded by a small group of enthusiastic technical divers in the Netherlands. We first…
“The Dutch” support Ghost Diving UK volunteers in cleaning up the SS Mars On the 29th of July 2023, a team of incredible volunteers from Ghost Diving UK and Ghost Diving NL came together for a noble cause – to lift a massive “ghost net” from the depths of the North Sea. The abandoned…
Ghost Diving Poland supports Operation Spöknät in Sweden In July 2023 the total of five members of Ghost Diving Poland together with other divers, volunteered in a project organized and managed by GUE Sweden – Operation Spöknät. The project was launched in 2019 to map and remove ghost nets from the waters around Sweden, including the Baltic…