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MV MAKO is getting ready for the new North Sea season

Our boat MV MAKO is currently being prepared for a new North Sea season by our volunteers. Among other things, she was taken out of the water to completely clean the bottom of the boat from fouling and to provide it with a new anti-fouling paint. In this way, other parts could also be cleaned mor...

Healthy Seas goes Global with Record Number of Activities

Thanks to the commitment and passion of our Healthy Seas team, our partners and of the many Ghost Diving volunteers we are proud to collaborate with, 2022 was an incredible year for Healthy Seas! Through hard work, strategic synergies, and creativity, we were able to achieve a truly global e...

SKARV: More eyes on marine pollution

In recent years, our projects have increased in size, with different requirements for the preparations. For example, more intensive scouting had to be done and surveys were also carried out above water in addition to the usual reconnaissance dives. An aerial reconnaissance turned out to be a logi...

Ghost Diving Egypt joins East Med in Cyprus

2023 has started out by being a busy year for Ghost Diving East Med. While the winter season is an unstable time frame where the sea only gives us some window for diving, weather dependent, we take the available opportunities to SCOUT / SCAN the underwater locations for Discarded or Lost Fishing...

The extremely high price of our eating habits

During their first action of 2023, our Ghost Diving Greece volunteers faced a horrific situation when they tried to remove a ghost net from the waters of the Saronic Gulf. An unlucky turtle became entangled in a fishing net, presumably while trying to feed, and subsequently drowned. Conside...

Healthy Seas joins hands with Ghost Diving Hong Kong to remove gill nets

In conjunction with World Water Day, Healthy Seas is proud to announce it has expanded its geographic focus and launches activities to Hong Kong. Healthy Seas is an environmental nonprofit organization founded in 2013 that began its marine conservation work in the Netherlands. Today, the o...

Ghost Diving USA takes care of Tuna Clipper

Location: Santa Catalina IslandWreck: The San Vito aka the "Tuna Clipper " Ghost Diving USA continues their pursuit of ghost nets on the Tuna Clipper. On February 13, divers set out aboard the Giant Stride to collect more net for the Beam Center playground project. Conditions were less than ...

"Ghosts" continue to haunt Ithaca

You certainly didn't miss that in 2021 and 2022 we ran two large abandoned fish farming projects from the beautiful island of Ithaca in the Ionian Sea. The results were impressive and with a total of more than 100,000 KG unparalleled in size. While we were active there we listened carefully ...

Impromptu net recovery – Petone Beach, New Zealand

While on a morning beach walk, Ghost Diving New Zealand team member Erin Hewetson noticed two large plastic jugs floating close to shore. Knowing this was likely a lost fishing net, Erin called for help from her sister, and they got to work pulling the net ashore. Makeshift weights had been attac...

Ghost Diving Presentation Quebec, Canada

CANADA 2022 a different continent, a different crowd, but always the same GLOBAL MISSION In the aim of Global Expansion and seeking like-minded people around the Globe, having the same interests in environmental conservation, Ghost Diving EastMed chapter coordinator Imad Farhat had the ho...

Clean-Up with THW Kiel & Bracenet

On December 10th a mixed team from Healthy Seas, Bracenet and Ghost Diving Germany supported local sport club THW Kiel with a well-organized Beach & Harbor Clean-Up in Kiel. Healthy Seas and Bracenet did the main organizational part, set up a camp, distributing flyers and information to ...

Shark Week in Gdynia Aquarium, Poland

On 21-27 November 2022 Gdynia Aquarium in Poland organized a “Shark Week”. At this occasion children and their families could participate in multiple educational workshops and games: "Creative Teaching Zone" – sharks identification and physiology workshop; “Owners of the Jaws” – presentati...

Recovering creelpots Loch Eriboll, Scotland

In early November we received a request for some help from local creel fisherman Kyle Farmer who is based at Loch Eriboll in the North of Scotland. He asked for our assistance recovering over 80 of his creels which had been lost after they had unfortunately been dragged in by 40ft swells over the...

Drone research vs. marine pollution: 1-0

Led by conservation biologist, Dr Sol Milne of Wolf Fish Ltd. and Ghost Diving Greece Coordinator, Nikos Vardakas, the research project ‘Coasts Untangled’ aims at developing aerial surveying methods to better see into water with rugged & complex bottom topography, coupled with scuba-diving tr...

Ghost Diving Spain 2022 Results

The 2022 campaign in Ghost Diving Spain has resulted in very positive figures, even more if we compare them with the previous campaign and the difficulties we have encountered this year such as inflation or lack of supply of Helium. Thanks to the 28 volunteers who have been working actively we ha...

UK Ghost Divers assemble at St Abbs for pot retrieval

In October Ghost Diving UK found themselves creating more bonds with Scottish fishermen as they helped with recovering more creels which have been lost for around 12 months. On a Saturday the team met in St Abbs, as this was the closest place to Cove where we could launch the team rib. Headi...

Illegal fishing net retrieval, Mahanga Bay New Zealand

We had just finished out last public clean-up of the year, people had given up there Saturday to help clean up the harbour. To find out that we had another mission. One of the locals had found ~40m net discarded, unlabeled (which is illegal) and still catching animals. We sent out the call and wi...

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 animals such sea turtles, comm...

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 wound...

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 the impact the net is having ...

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