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Next weekend March 14/15, the Ghost Diving Adriatic team will immerse again to clean up several discovered fishing nets in Croatia.

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57 lost lobster pots pulled out from the seabed in Galway

From September 3-6, supported by Gesellschaft zur Rettung der Delphine (GRD) and Scubadive West, we carried out a first of its kind ghost fishing gear removal operation (Operation “Stone & Pots”) off the W. Coast of Ireland. During operation “Stone and Pots”, our team of 6 expert technical d...

Expanding team and great results at Panago & Rode Poon

Technical divers love projects and lost fishing gear is simply everywhere in the world so there is A LOT to be done. Because of that Ghost Fishing is expanding rapidly all over the world, a classic win-win situation. :) So very often we get requests from divers to join our teams and last weekend ...

Bow net mission HMS E36 North Sea

A typical quote of a Ghost diver: “There is no such thing as too many lift bags” and indeed, last weekend was again a perfect example of that when our Dutch team headed back to the HMS E36, an E-class submarine for the British Royal Navy which sunk in a collision with HMS E43 off Harwich in the N...

ARTE documentary on plastic pollution in the North Sea

One of the first Dutch North Sea cleanup missions of 2018 we had amazing journalists on board tirelessly supporting our work with a full documentary on lost fishing gear and plastic in our seas and oceans. This documentary is released and aired in Germany on ZDF and Arte a few weeks ago, check it...

Healthy Seas & Ghost Fishing final Grantee Vestas 11th Hour Racing

At the last stopover of the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race, team members from Vestas 11th Hour Racing spent the morning on a dive vessel meeting with staff and volunteers of Healthy Seas. This is the final and twelfth grant awarded by 11th Hour Racing during the Volvo Ocean Race, with the team cho...

Ammonite System supports Dutch Ghost Diving team

Without good equipment we cannot do our missions, so we are very proud to announce that Ammonite System has decided to support the Dutch Ghost Fishing core-team with their high-end lighting products! Ammonite System lighting systems are 100% designed and produced in Poland. The company coope...

Santorini Mission: An unforgettable experience

For the divers, volunteers and friends who were part of the Healthy Seas #SaveYourBreath event organised together with Cousteau Divers and Atlantis Diving, it was an unforgettable experience. Whether they were above or under the water, each of the 30 some people included in the team, had a s...

“Healthy Seas: Save Your Breath” – Live Streaming Event for World Oceans Day

Ghost nets kill millions of marine animals each year. On June 8th, World Oceans Day, Healthy Seas together with Cousteau Divers, with the support of Carvico S.p.A, will live stream from the island of Santorini in Greece, and show the world how divers remove these deadly traps. Expert divers ...

North Sea season 2018 kicked off!

We kicked off our North Sea season with a spectacular dive on a submarine wreck on March 31. Our team headed out to the North Sea with a new diving charter “Araid Wreckdiving” from IJmuiden harbor for a regular dive on the HMS E36, a WWI submarine resting at 28m of depth. The dive was mainly...

Ghost Fishing receives TAUCHEN Awards 2018 donation

January 25th 2018, Ghost Fishing foundation received a very generous donation of EUR 3500 at the TAUCHEN awards 2018 in Düsseldorf Germany. With this donation our work once again gets great recognition and of course we would not be Ghost Fishing divers if we have not already allocated this to a b...

Hunting for ghost nets in the Caspian Sea

In October 2017, three Ghost Fishing Foundation volunteers and a team of Kazakh volunteers executed a ghost net removal pilot mission at the Caspian Sea. They operated 15 days from with working vessel MV Helen leaving from the port of Bautino, Kazakhstan. All the volunteers at Ghost Fishing ...

Over 2 tonnes of marine litter have been removed in Malta for ‘Our Ocean’

On 5-6 October 2017, global leaders are invited in Malta to commit to new actions to ensure sustainable fisheries, to mitigate climate change impacts, to announce new marine protected areas and to fight marine pollution in the framework of the Our Ocean 2017 conference. Healthy Seas and its ...

Ghost net removal action near Salamina island Greece

What an amazing diving trip we had near Salamina island, Greece last week! On 2-3 September together with Healthy Seas and and Ghost Fishing Greece divers, we removed huge amount of ghost nets from the “Aghios Markos” shipwreck and released a few entangled marine animals, thus made the seas a cle...

Diving trip with Bracenet at the North Sea

Our Healthy Seas partner Bracenet joined us at the North Sea diving trip last weekend, 6 August, and helped to recover some nasty ghost nets. Many thanks for everyone involved! In about 4 weeks there will be new Bracenets available for you in their online shop. Stay tuned! The unique wristba...

Ghost net removal in Plymouth, UK ended with great results

On Saturday, 5 August Ghost Fishing UK team members were joined by Healthy Seas, Milliken and Aquafil to clean up the popular wreck of the James Eagan Layne in Plymouth, UK. The team showed up at various stages of Friday midnight, exhausted after their work and journeys but showed incredible...

Klipper and Juffermans shipwrecks cleaned up.

July 22nd, the Dutch Ghost Fishing team operating from Aquila Charter visited the shipwrecks named Klipper and Juffermans within the Healthy Seas initiative. At the Klipper the team had the advantage of great visibility and they managed to remove quite a substantial amount of nets and approximate...

North Sea diving season 2017 kicked off!

Last weekend, June 10th, we had the official kick off for the North Sea diving season 2017 in collaboration with Healthy Seas. The lost fishing gear removal action was executed at the shipwreck ‘Rode Poon’ (Red Gurnard), infamous by the huge amounts of lost gear present on the shipwreck...

North Sea medical rescue scenario training with KNRM & LUMC

“Success is 90% preparation and only 10% perspiration” Saturday May 13, Divers of Ghost Fishing In collaboration with Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM) locations Katwijk aan Zee, TerHeijde, Noordwijk aan Zee and Leiden University Medical Center organized a medical rescue scenar...

Pascal van Erp nominated twice for EuroTEK 2016 Award

The EuroTEK awards are coming again! A number of awards are given out, acknowledging people, companies, equipment or services that have inspired divers, enabled them to further their diving, or made their diving safer. Our Ghost Fishing Foundation chairman; Pascal van Erp has been nominated ...

Two days, two teams with Healthy Seas & PAN Salvage

Last weekend June 25-26, 2016 no less than two Healthy Seas clean-up missions took place parallel at the Dutch North Sea, resulting in more than 2,5 tons of discarded fishing gear. Aquila Charter with ten volunteer divers left Scheveningen harbor on Saturday 25 June for a one-day clean-up di...

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