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Premuda, Croatia: Where history meets conservation and innovation

During Ghost Diving Adriatic’s latest ghost net cleanup project, a team of 8 divers headed to Premuda island from July 24-27, to clean up 3 shipwrecks lying at 60-65 meters depth, covered in old fishing nets. Divers from all over the world are frequently visiting these wrecks to explore thei...

Ghost Diving UK actively responds on ghost gear reports

Over the last few months Ghost Diving UK has received many reports of Ghost gear. As well as reports from divers we have been surveying wrecks from Eyemouth to Tynemouth running out of North Shields and Seaham harbour. The Seaham area has a rich maritime history and provides some fantastic...

Thirty-eight animals released in just one hour in Greece

On July 30th, the Ghost Diving Greece team undertook a ghost gear retrieval at Arsida Island, Anavyssos Bay. We set off at 7.30, heading to the site where a net which (we believe) had been previously located & partially removed by Athens Divers. At its deepest point, the net sat at 43 m, drap...

Ghost Diving Greece & GGGI Report: Coasts Untangled

Coasts Untangled 17 sites visited across Attica & FthiotidaAerial surveys covered a total of 15.23 km221’041 images collected across this areaThe full number of nets in the images are still being calculated, but we are expecting numbers in the vicinity of 505 scuba diving transects were ...

Croatia: A deep dive to clean the SS Vis

From June 19-23, 14 volunteer divers carried out several ghost net cleanups in Istria, Croatia. They focused on both a wreck and a reef where a lot of fishing gear has been lost in recent decades. A sardine net measuring 100 meters was recovered from a depth of 60 m from the seabed wher...

Creel Pot Operation Burghead successfully completed

In Early December 2021, Ghost Diving UK were in Greece collaborating with Healthy Seas as part of Ghost diving's global mission. We received a call from a Scottish fisherman, Graeme, based in the beautiful Moray Firth. He asked for our help to recover over 600 lobster creels lost as a result of t...

International marine conservation organizations return to Greece, to tackle ghost farms

Another massive marine protection effort just wrapped up on the island of Ithaca, in Greece. Last year, the record-breaking cleanup project by Healthy Seas and partners resulted in 76 tons of marine litter being removed from seas and beaches in 8 days. This devastation was the result of a fish ...

Ghost Diving is recipient of the GGGI Small Grants 2022

Ghost Diving, proud member of GGGI since their launch in 2014, is honored to be a recipient of the Global Ghost Gear Initiative small grant 2022. The generous grant of USD 30.000 will be spent entirely on our new innovative project Coasts Untangled, where we will, conduct ghost fishing gear ...

Ghost Diving Germany recovers more than 500kg ghost nets from the North Sea

Ghost Diving Germany made their first project in the North Sea of East Frisia 2022 May 2-7. Starting on Monday morning with total flat sea and sunny weather, they have been able to go out for diving all five days. That’s incredible for the North Sea region! Sponsored by NV-Versicherung, Tauchv...

Ghost Diving East Med kicks off 2022 with 2 projects The operations in Cyprus and Lebanon are in full swing

When 2021 concluded on a good note, with multiple projects successfully executed throughout the year, Ghost Diving East Med kicked off 2022 with 2 projects, one executed in the crystal clear waters of the Mediterranean Island Cyprus, and the second project on the Lebanese shoreline. In the e...

Ghost Diving Portugal accepted as member of Estação Náutica de Sesimbra

On the 17th of February 2022, Ghost Diving Portugal had the privilege of being accepted as an effective member of Estação Náutica de Sesimbra, coordinated by the Municipal of Sesimbra and now being part of the 41 public and private partners whose objective is the strategic development of quality ...

Ghost Diving USA remove ghost nets from shipwreck off San Pedro, California

Six volunteer divers took to cleaning part of the wreck of the USS Moody that in 1933 made its final plunge for the filming purposes of “Hell Below.” Since then, as with any underwater object protruding from the seabed, the wreck has been accumulating fishing nets, the deadliest form of marine pl...

Welcome (back) Ghost Diving USA

Ghost Diving, formerly Ghost Fishing, has officially arrived in the United States. Naming Southern California as home for the United States chapter is not an expansion to a new territory; instead, it is a warm welcome home after a long journey. Ghost Fishing first arrived in Southern California i...

Fishers and divers join forces to cleanup the island of Odysseus

A big, international marine protection endeavor on the island of Ithaca, in Greece, is announced for Earth Day (April 22nd). 2021 is known throughout Ithaca as the year of “The Cleanup”! The organisations responsible for removing 76 tons of marine litter from the island’s seas and beaches la...

Ghost Net Retrieval Workshop in Greece

On April 8-9, Ghost Diving Greece hosted the Ghost Net Retrieval Workshop at the Scubalife Dive Center to encourage qualified divers to learn the skills to safely retrieve abandoned fishing nets. We really enjoyed holding our first workshop to share our love of conservation and preservation of th...

Ghost Gear surveys UK East Coast

Over the past few weeks we have conducted some surveys in the British North Sea. Soon we will start recovering the ghost gear that we have located. Seaham Ghost Net Recovery March 26th, our UK team travelled to a previously surveyed mark about 3 miles off the Northeast coast of England....

Ghost Diving guest speaker at Diving Safety Conference

On March 25, the third edition of the Dutch conference and network event Wij Duiken Veilig took place, with Ghost Diving as guest speaker. Ghost Diving was already present during the first edition in 2020, and after a virtual edition last year in 2021, of course due to the prevailing pandemic, a ...

Ghost Diving Poland participated in Baltic Sea Protection Days

On March 19 and 20, Ghost Diving Poland took part in the Baltic Sea Protection Days, organized by the Aquarium in Gdynia, Poland. Our team of volunteers gave open presentations about the ghost fish problem and both organizations Ghost Diving and Healthy Seas. At the same time, our team also organ...

Pascal van Erp - Clearing the Ocean of Ghost Nets

Our founder Pascal van Erp was recently invited by PADI to participate in their dive stories podcast where they wanted to know all about what we are doing with Ghost Diving and Healthy Seas. In this podcast he tells how it all started with both organizations, their many collaborati...

Intro to Scuba: Ghost Diving Germany x Bracenet

Ghost Diving and BRACENET have been working closely together for a long time. In order to gain even more understanding, recently Ghost Diving Germany organized an intro-to-scuba event for interested Bracenet employees in Hamburg. With the great support of numerous team members, we were delighted ...

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