Fathoms Free recovered a huge monofilament net from beside Drakes Island in Plymouth Sound. Sadly it had trapped a lot of life

Stingray's Revival is completed! She's ready for action, and all the recent sea trials have been a great success. A huge thank you to everyone who supported the project. Every donation counted and contributed to this very special RIB.

End of March 2025 Fathoms Free volunteers assisted IFCA Cornwall and The Environment Agency to recover a large and deadly monofilament net from the river Tamar at Cremyll

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stingray-revival Fathoms Free wants to revive and restore the Cornish dive boat Stingray we recently...

Sad collection of dead and dying fish and crustaceans trapped in a bunch of pots recovered from a Cornish beach

Exciting new boat project, meet Stingray a Cornish RHIB through and through that will allow us to collaborate more with other local groups

Nets, pots and rope recovered from Mounts Bay, Penzance

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We recovered a big tangle of monofilament net recovered just outside of Looe harbour that we found earlier in the year on a SeaSearch dive

Two dive sites visited off of Falmouth. Net recovered from one of them and a lost pot from the other

The last Saturday of July saw the team from Fathoms Free  respond to another report of ghost gear in Mounts Bay, Cornwall. Our friends at...

This time the team recovered tangled net, ropes and a collection of general litter from a popular Penzance wreck diving site

Our volunteers headed to the far south west of the County to recover ghost gear from the Runnel Stone reef

What do we do with the nets we recover? Read this article to learn more

On Sunday our volunteers recovered a large abandoned monofilament gill net in St. Austell Bay. The net was reported to Fathoms Free by...

Today one of our volunteer trustees Jules responded to a request for assistance and took Casper out to support a recovery of ghost gear....

Yesterday we recovered a huge abandoned net in Mounts Bay. The deadly monofilament net was found by divers during a Cornwall Wildlife...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at Fathoms Free! Huge thank you to all of our volunteers, partners and supporters!...

This morning, two of our team responded to a report of a large amount of abandoned trawl net that had travelled up the river Yealm and...

Yesterday our core team responded to a report from IFCA of an abandoned gill net in an area of Plymouth sound. Upon arrival, the team...

Yesterday, we responded to a call for help from our friend Frosty, AKA Turn the Tide. An abandoned bundle of ropes and nets had appeared...

Yesterday, the team were busy once again recovering ghost gear from Falmouth Bay, Cornwall. During the week, Seasearch divers had...

At the weekend, our team comprising volunteers from Fathoms Free and Sea Shepherd UK were busy surveying two locations in Falmouth Bay,...

Recently, we received a message from a member of the public that a lost/abandoned net had appeared on Seaton beach near Looe, and needed...

Sunday afternoon, our team of volunteers were out busy recovering ghost gear and marine debris from the wreck of the SS Stanwood in...

At the weekend, our team of volunteers were out busy recovering ghost gear from Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall. Making the most of the...

Our little display at Cornwall Wildlife Trust's Your Shore Network Conference 2023! The team are here today representing the work Fathoms...

Here is another truck load of deadly nets removed from the environment by volunteers from Sea Shepherd UK Sea Shepherd UK - Ghostnet...

This afternoon two volunteers from Fathoms Free and Sea Shepherd UK - Ghostnet Campaign responded to a report received this morning of a...

One man and his wheelbarrow, with a bucket load of determination. Last weekend the team at Fathoms Free were all committed to work or...

Saturday was International Coastal Cleanup Day, and the volunteers divers from Fathoms Free and Sea Shepherd UK - Ghostnet Campaign spent...

Yesterday our team comprising volunteers from Fathoms Free and Sea Shepherd UK - Ghostnet Campaign were once again busy recovering ghost...

Last weekend our team comprising volunteers from Fathoms Free and Sea Shepherd UK - Ghostnet Campaign were busy recovering ghost gear...

This evening our team were busy recovering ghost gear from the SS Hellopes in Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall, which had been reported to...

This weekend our team were busy recovering the wrasse traps which had been reported to us by IFCA. It was great to have new members Dave...

Abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), otherwise known as ghost gear, has been receiving more and more attention in recent...

We have been asked quite a lot lately about Fathoms Free T-Shirts an other clothing, so we are really pleased to share our new store with...

For the last couple of years, we at Fathoms Free have been storing our pickup truck, boat and box trailer in a small field. It wasn't...

Saturday 10th July Fathoms Free organised the clearing of ghost gear and marine debris from the SS Epsilon. This wreck was notorious for...

Sunday 18th April saw another successful ghost gear recovery, this time from the wreck of the SS Stanwood in the Carrick Roads, Falmouth....

Tuesday 6th April 2021 - Despite the far from ideal conditions and temperatures normally seen in the middle of winter, five of us set out...

20th March 2021, another success story and a great example of how teamwork and collaboration between charities pays off! Fathoms Free...

On 16th March 2021 Fathoms Free received a ghost net report via our website from a member of the public who had spotted a large trawl net...

Fathoms Free are very pleased to be this years selected charity for Plymouth based Drayton Controls. As part of their annual selected...

Recently the lovely members of the Rotary Club of Tiverton organised a fundraising event with Simon Reeve on Zoom. Simon entertained over...

In the afternoon of 15th February we received a report that a ghost net had washed ashore on Castle Beach, Falmouth. The photographs...

Following closely after our charity registration, Fathoms Free are now registered with the HMRC for Gift Aid. If you have donated to us...

Following a report last weekend of ghost gear on the Coroni River wreck in Falmouth bay, a team of volunteers took advantage of a weather...

After a lot of hard work by the John, Nat and Jules as the Trustees, Fathoms Free is at last a registered charity with the UK Charities...

In early September 2020 Fathoms Free volunteers were filmed for the BBC 2 two-part series 'Cornwall with Simon Reeve' recovering a 200m...