As part of PADI AWARE Week, we are thrilled to announce an exciting collaboration between PADI, PADI AWARE, Seiko, HEPCA, and CDWS. Join them for an extraordinary underwater clean-up event at Magawish Island, Hurghada, on the 13th September 2023. Guided by local PADI dive centers and marine experts from HEPCA, you can participate in a […]
THE CHARITY which came to Shetland last week to retrieve lost fishing gear from the sea says it recovered 1,500kg of equipment. This included a trawl net from the wreck of the sunken fishing boat Froach Ban, and many creels. Ghost Fishing UK brought up 12 divers to Shetland.
A NATIONAL charity has nearly completed its first visit to the isles to gather up ‘ghost gear’ – fishing gear that has been abandoned, lost or discarded in the water. Ghost Fishing UK was founded in 2015 and is run entirely by volunteers who dedicate their time to removing.
VOLUNTEER divers from a charity are preparing head to Shetland soon for a week-long mission to help the fishing community clean up the seas around the isles. Responding to reports from local fishermen of large gill nets, mostly non native to the UK, catching all kinds of.