A diver retrieves a ‘ghost net’ from the seabed off the Greek island of Santorini – Copyright AFP Will Vassilopoulos Off the spectacular Greek tourist island of ...

From beaches across Mexico, groups of women in diving gear who call themselves sirenas, or mermaids, are taking on the ocean’s ghosts. Starting their days at 6 a.m., they search for and remove one of ...

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Ghost nets are lost or abandoned fishing nets that can take centuries to break down. In the meantime, they can damage delicate marine ecosystems and entangle and kill wildlife. In 2015, a local NGO ...

Nearly 200 feet down off the shore of Sicily, a diver working to cut away abandoned fishing nets filmed an unusual sight: a full-grown great white shark swimming past him.

When we think of plastic pollution in the ocean, we might think of discarded bottles and other litter, or even microplastics like nurdles. But one of the major components of this plastic problem is ...

More than 132 feet below sea level, a diver was removing abandoned fishing nets from a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea when he had an encounter that would be the stuff of many people’s ...