A pilot project in Cyprus In its continuous efforts to help clean the seas from the fishing industry’s negative impact, Ghost Diving Lebanon looked across the Mediterranean Sea to Cyprus, its neighboring island. After getting intel from locals about discarded fishing gear at multiple locations around the island, especially in areas where green sea turtles nest…
Forming Ghost Diving Germany To setup a local Ghost Diving chapter is quite easy. To form a team, that is able to fulfil the task is quite a different matter, especially when there is a global pandemic and rules of engagements are strict. Following the motto “Train hard, fight easy” Ghost Diving Germany performed some training…
North Sea Survey Report: MV Queenford The locations of lost fishing gear in the North Sea are reported to us in various ways. We usually receive these locations in person from divers and fishermen, but we also receive them through the ghost gear report form on our website. In addition, we set out with our survey…
Epic sea cleanup restores pristine beauty of Greek island with removal of 76 tons of debris In just over a week, a team of 45, most of which volunteers including 20 divers, undertook an unprecedented cleanup removing 76 tons of debris from the sea, coastline, and 4 beaches on the Southwest of Ithaca, an…
Ghost Diving Poland opens exhibition in Gdynia In cooperation with the volunteers from Ghost Diving Poland and Healthy Seas the long-term exhibit “Ghost Nets” at the Gdynia Aquarium opened this weekend. The kick-off event was a great success with children being engaged in little rescue and release missions. On Saturday and Sunday 3 workshops a day were offered…
Ghost Diving Egypt teams up with Healthy Seas Over the last couple of weeks, the Healthy Seas team joined volunteers from Ghost Diving Egypt and kicked off our collaboration to cleanup the sea around Dahab. Our aim is to help rid the Red Sea of ghost gear and raise public awareness on the growing marine litter problem. Five…
Cleanup Zegerplas in Alphen a/d Rijn The Netherlands Ghost Divers are slowly forged for a clear reason: The removal of fishing gear, mainly big fishing nets should not be underestimated. The starting point is to have confidence in a team activity, being a team player and to be able to perform an (often complicated)…
Ghost Diving Germany is established After we had already completed several successful projects in German waters, it had to be done, we settled in Germany! An enthusiastic group or technical divers has organized and will further shape Ghost Diving Germany. They will focus on activities in German waters but of course also participate in…
First ghost gear tests conducted with Deeptrekker ROV When we set a trend in cleaning up lost fishing gear with divers, we focused on conducting this activity in the most safe way. After years of testing, training and building up experience, we have managed to build up a solid set of standard procedures that…
Ghost gear vessel M/V MAKO is launched In December last year, asset manager DWS has donated to Healthy Seas to help this important marine protection organization buy its own vessel M/V MAKO. DWS has supported Healthy Seas since 2019 and as a result several sea clean-ups were organized in Europe in cooperation with Ghost Diving, one of the founding partners of Healthy…