His buddies are already in the water - two free divers who’ll stay at surface level and keep an eye on things, and two scuba divers who’ll help him recover the ghost net that descends like a ...

Podcasts: From unlistenable to unmissable When those nets get lost at sea, they become ghost nets, an expense for fishermen and deadly for marine life. It's hard to measure the scale of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The World War II U-boat is covered with what they call ghost nets, which put marine life in danger. "Ghost fishing is what the nets do because the abandoned nets do what they're designed to do ...

The statistics are chilling—ghost nets are responsible for the demise of an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 marine creatures annually. Sharks, the apex predators of the ocean, fall victim to these ...

The survey revealed a significant accumulation of abandoned nylon fishing nets, or "ghost nets," tangled in rocks and the seabed. These nets, some as large as 14m, can take centuries to degrade ...

Abandoned fishing gear can "ghost fish," or trap and kill ocean animals that are never harvested. It's also costly - and ...