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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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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...

Kick off North Sea season 2016 with Healthy Seas

Last weekend we executed two North Sea lost fishing gear removal actions, this time at the shipwrecks ‘Rode Poon’ (Red Gurnard) and 'Panago'. This trip was the official kick off for the Dutch Healthy Seas season. The visibility was (again) very bad but nevertheless we managed to re...

Ghost net hunting on Sylter Aussenriff with Greenpeace

From May 2nd - 13th 2016 we executed another North Sea lost fishing gear removal mission, this time in German waters targeting the marine protected area "Sylter Aussenriff". In only 11 days we removed more then 1,5 tonnes of lost fishing gear by hand from only three different shipwrecks in this '...

Kick off Healthy Seas projects in Greece

Between 11 and 16 April 2016 a group of six divers formed by Greek and Dutch Ghost Fishing volunteers executed several successful clean-up missions in Greece. This first Healthy Seas diving action of the year ended with huge results! The team made six dives in total at the M/V Portugal ...

Lost fishing gear surveys with Greenpeace Germany

In 2015 we did lost fishing gear surveys in the German North Sea in preparation for a bigger Greenpeace Campaign focussing on this subject. This misson, operating from the Greenpeace Beluga II, we retrieved a GIANT part of an old bottom trawl net acting as a 'floating patch' still catching underw...

First North Sea trip with Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise

Amsterdam, April 30 – 2015: Team Ghost Fishing and Greenpeace Nederland headed to the North Sea for crew training and preparation for upcoming missions. Diving was optional due to weather forecast and skipped because of bad wind and wave conditions. But due to these tough conditions we have put d...

Project Baseline: Report lost fishing gear

Inspired by Ghost Fishing, divers of Project Baseline: Haarlemmermeer came up with an idea to create more awareness in The Netherlands about the issues caused by lost recreational fishing gear. The first reactive step (cleanup) is to encourage recreational anglers to report their losses through ...

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