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664,000 tons of fishing nets are lost or discarded into the world’s oceans every single year, so we were excited when Hyundai invited us out on an expedition to reclaim two of what they call ghost nets.
Disclaimer Hyundai paid for the authors accommodations to attend this event.
In partnership with non-profit Healthy Seas, which Hyundai supports, a volunteer team of divers from Ghost Diving USA team geared up on a diving vessel in the Long Beach Marina for the 110 foot / 30 meter deep dive down to the shipwreck where the two ghost nets were snagged just off the coast of one of Southern California’s Channel Islands (Google Maps).
The boat departed early with a full crew of recovery divers, gear, the Healthy Seas team, and a few members of the media towards the exposed Western Coast of Catalina Island. The 90-minute dive would allow the divers enough time to get down to the nets, cut them into manageable pieces, and attach recovery floats to them.
