The Midnight Hour
Location: Southern California
Site: The Midnight Hour
Boat: Giant Stride
Divers: Curtis Wolfslau, Andrew Hung, Norbert Lee, Jung Hseih
Surface Support: Angie Biggs
Mission Impact: 200 pounds of net removed (approximately 400 square feet) and sent to Aquafil for recycling.
Team Ghost Diving USA set out aboard the Giant Stride for the Midnight Hour. With scooters charged, decompression gas staged, and a clear plan for the day, the team came ready to pull net.
Gearing up on deck under the dive flag, stage bottles staged and ready.
After a thorough briefing, the team geared up and dropped in. On the bottom, the divers located the net and went to work — placing lift bags, cutting the net free, and inflating the bags to carry it toward the surface. As always, our team checked the net carefully for entangled marine life as they cut.
At the surface, Angie and the crew of the Giant Stride were ready to retrieve the net and haul it aboard. When the net was tallied, the team had removed roughly 200 pounds — about 400 square feet — of ghost net from the site. That is 200 pounds of net that can no longer entangle and kill marine life. The recovered net was sent to Aquafil to be recycled and given a second life rather than left to fish forever on the bottom.
The day’s haul — net piled on the deck of the Giant Stride.
A great day for the team and another meaningful dent in the ghost gear off our coast. We will be back for the Midnight Hour.
A very special thank you to Captain Jim and the crew of the Giant Stride, and to our partners for supporting our clean-up efforts.