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Next weekend September 24/25, the Ghost Diving Adriatic team will immerse again to clean up several discovered fishing nets in Croatia.

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Trawler net recovered at Taputeranga Marine Reserve New Zealand

The Taputeranga Marine Reserve is mere minutes away from the city centre, but the underwater metropolis provides a stark contrast to the busy streets of the Wellington CBD. And it was there, amongst the rocky reefs and kelp forests, that I’d learnt to dive less than two years ago. It can be cold,...

Brainstorming about fishing net and waste recycling

Last Tuesday 15 September we participated together with Healthy Seas, United Wadden harbors, CIV Den Oever, KIMO Nederland and Bek & Verburg in the first session of a new work group consisting of various stakeholders from the fishing industry, fishing harbors, fishing net manufacturers and in...

Ghost Diving launches support wear line with Fourth Element

All our work is 100% voluntarily and Ghost Diving Foundation runs entirely on donations, only thus can we continue our important conservation an education work. Do you want to support our work and spread the message at the same time? Then choose our Ghost Diving support wear!We teamed up with sty...

Another 500KG ghost gear recovered from North Sea shipwrecks

Because our average travel distance to reach shipwrecks is four hours and we can only dive at slack water, our North Sea cleanup days start very early. Our 14 volunteers started the morning of Sunday August 16th at 6:00 and they will probably be back in the harbor around 22:00.This day the team c...

International Ghost Diving volunteers work two days in the Adriatic

When you think of team work, you think of Ghost Diving. The only way to learn this work is to join an experienced team and learn from them, along the way you become part of the team (or not) and voila: You know your destiny. At July 25-26, 2020, when the Dutch team and Ghost Diving Greece were to...

Environmental Divers Clean Up the HMS Perseus to Protect Marine Life

Shipwrecks and reefs are hot spots for biodiversity, providing food and shelter to marine life. At the same time, they are also deadly traps because lost fishing nets (ghost nets) often get snagged on them. When trapped in these nets, animals like sea turtles, dolphins, seals, birds but also fish...

Hundreds of meters of gill nets recovered from S.S. Trevier

Last weekend our team was hunting for lost fishing gear at the Dutch North Sea again with great results. For eight years we target a local shipwreck we identified in as S.S. Trevier back in 2018. For the last decades, this location has become a gathering place for a wide range of fishing gear, an...

First regular North Sea cleanup operation of 2020

Saturday June 20, 2020 our Dutch team consisting of 13 divers headed out for their first regular North Sea cleanup operation. We went back to the shipwreck we identified in 2018 as S.S. Trevier and managed to recover another 200KG of lost fishing gear and released several trapped animals. Till da...

50m ghost net cleaned-up after lock-down in Egypt

In full COVID-19 lockdown since March 2020, the town of Dahab on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt was so eager to get back to the pristine conditions of the Red Sea. Among those was our Ghost Diving Egypt team. Making use of a 3-day government allowed sea clean-up dives, t...

First dive for Greek team after the lock-down

Two weeks after the Greek government eased the restrictive measures imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, volunteer divers of Ghost Diving Greece returned to the water for another Healthy Seas cleanup! After all, ghost nets were never under lock-down, proof of which is the poor lobster t...

First North Sea ghost net survey of 2020

We are on target! Last Sunday May 17, 2020 our Dutch team did their first North Sea ghost net survey of this year. Exactly as expected we have again located a massive lost fishing net on one of the regular dived shipwrecks . Next dive, the fishing net will be recovered. To be continued!

British organization Ghost Fishing UK separated from Ghost Diving

After four years of collaboration, we are sadly saying goodbye to 'Ghost Fishing UK'. This is a mutual decision.We are currently going through the process of rebranding to become 'Ghost Diving'. 'Ghost Fishing UK' have stated they wish to retain the name 'Ghost Fishing UK' for several reasons, in...

Ghost Fishing changes its name to Ghost Diving to focus on the solution

Ghost Fishing foundation, a well-known charity, is officially re-branding itself as Ghost Diving foundation to make it easier to the public to understand what it does. In 2012, Pascal van Erp founded the Ghost Fishing organisation, a non-profit that works with volunteer divers around ...

Ghost Diving and Greenpeace explore Vema Seamount

Cape Town – A team of Greenpeace activists, Ghost Diving and scientists on board Greenpeace’s iconic Arctic Sunrise have discovered a biodiversity haven on the Vema Seamount, 1 000km off the coast of Cape Town in the South-east Atlantic Ocean.The return of this research expedition concludes the S...

Results of the 2019 Diving Season with Healthy Seas

In the years since Ghost Diving started diving at shipwrecks and removing ghost gear, many diving groups around the world have been inspired and followed our "Dutch" example, establishing Ghost Fishing chapters in the UK, Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, South Korea, New Zealand, Costa Brava, Malta and mo...

Croatia 2019: Wrecks & Nets

We decided to return to Croatia with the Healthy Seas initiative 5 years since we were there last. In 2013 and 2014, with support of Krnica Dive Center, Ghost Diving volunteers cleaned the Argo wreck from top to bottom (bow to stern) and lifted over 3,500 kilos of trawler nets to the surface.&nbs...

Almost 1 tonne of ghost nets recovered from German Baltic Sea

From June 10-12, our team of divers operated for the first time in the German Baltic Sea to retrieve lost fishing gear from the seabed. Despite the unfavorable weather conditions, we were able to pull out 800 kgs of fishing nets, from 28 meters depth. The “catch” will be sent to Norwegian c...

Aeolian Islands: Small island community unites with us for healthy seas and a sustainable tomorrow

We just got back from Lipari, a small island in the Aeolian Archipelago where together with Healthy Seas, the Aeolian Islands Preservation Fund and Blue Marine Foundation we carried out a 6-day long World Oceans Day mission, which resulted in cleaning up 5 tons of ghost nets from the seabed. ...

Less ghostnets, More seahorses

From 18th – 20th May 2019, Healthy Seas will carry out its 2nd mission in Stratoni, a coastal town in Northern Greece, making good on our promise to return to complete cleaning up the seabed of ghost fishing nets. The recovery mission is being carried out in collaboration with Ghost Fishing ...

Ghost Diving volunteer training “Survival at Sea”

Last weekend we welcomed a group of potential new Ghost Fishing volunteers at our volunteer training program. The first part of this program is focusing on “Survival at Sea” procedures and scenario training aimed at technical divers. It was a very successful day that will bring a lot of added val...

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