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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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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...

2019 North Sea Kick-off: KW-194 / Eben Haezer

Time for some North Sea action! The first weekend of April 2019, the Dutch team performed a Ghost Diving/ Healthy Seas lost fishing gear survey dive in the North Sea, at the wreck of an old fishing vessel KW 194 "Eben Haezer" sunken in 1972. The shipwreck is now colonized by underwater flora and ...

Identity of 102-year-old shipwreck in the North Sea discovered during Ghost Diving mission

The Ghost Diving Foundation has been working all over the world for years to clean up seas and oceans of lost fishing gear. One of our most important operating areas is the Dutch North Sea. A popular dive site in the North Sea is an unidentified wreck which fishermen named "Rode Poon” after the N...

Aeolian Islands: Milestone mission as 3 ton ghost net is removed from the seabed

From October 6-8, an amazing 6-person team of Dutch and Italian Ghost Diving volunteers carried out a ghost net recovery mission off the coast of the Aeolian Islands in Italy. It was organised by Healthy Seas in cooperation with the Aeolian Islands Preservation Fund, Blue Marine Foundation and sp...

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 ...

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