Fishing for Ghosts
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Case Studies
GENERATION CHANGE
FISHING FOR GHOSTS
Rob Wilson and his team at Ghost Diving New Zealand are dedicated to ridding the oceans of plastics. Reclaimed waste goes on to live a second life in everything from reusable water bottles to smartphones.
GHOST HUNTING
Truck tires, street cones, car batteries, live ammunition, and industrial-scale fishing nets; it's not what you'd expect to find at the bottom of the ocean. But this is just a sample of what Rob Wilson and his team at Ghost Diving New Zealand retrieve from the waters surrounding Wellington in their monthly cleanup missions.
“When you find 32 street cones in a pile on the seabed because someone has just heaved them into the water, you've got to think, 'Where's this person's brain at?'” says Wilson. “There can't be any logic to it.”
Taxonomy
- Pollution
- Pollution
- Plastic Pollution