On a recent and very foggy morning, I met the small team of Ghost Diving USA at the 22nd Street landing in San Pedro. They’re the local chapter of a global mission to clean up ghost nets — abandoned, ...

Volunteer scuba divers are clearing "ghost nets" caught on a shipwreck off the coast of San Pedro. We got on the boat with them to learn more. Why it matters: Ghost nets are abandoned, lost or ...

After being cut free from the reef, large ghost nets like the one pictured are recovered by specially trained marine debris technicians from PMDP. Teams use a combination of lines, specialty knots and ...

Divers off the coast of Sapientza Island in southern Greece have launched a determined effort to remove "ghost nets" — abandoned fishing gear that silently strangles marine ecosystems. Draped like ...

Discarded nets, lines and traps are a hazard to marine life and ecosystems around the world, but pioneering programs are tackling the problem creatively through education, prevention, ocean cleanups ...

For the Oceans Foundation successfully completed the first stage of its ghost net rescue campaign in Costa de Pájaros, Puntarenas, removing approximately 15 tons of abandoned fishing nets from the ...

HONOLULU (AP) — “Ghost nets” from unknown origins drift among the Pacific’s currents, threatening sea creatures and littering shorelines with the entangled remains of what they kill. Lost or discarded ...

The project, founded in 2019 by siblings Amaia and Julen Rodriguez, channels recovered materials into a recycling circuit ...

Volunteer divers spent time this week near a sunken pre-World War II destroyer, retrieving commercial fishing nets 150 feet under the sea off the coast of San Pedro as part of an international effort ...

Volunteer divers from the environmental group Aegean Rebreath use lift bags to raise a fish-farming net from the seabed during an underwater cleanup off the islet of Sapientza, near Methoni, in ...