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…
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…
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…
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, there…
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 Beneath…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…