We're incredibly proud to be able to announce that Fathoms Free have been awarded the King's Award for Voluntary Service! Equivalent to an MBE, this is the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK! The award celebrates exceptional contributions volunteers make to their local communities, and we're deeply humbled to have been honoured with it. This year has been particularly significant for Fathoms Free, marked by the launch of our dive boat Stingray. Refurbished

We're excited to share that Fathoms Free has been nominated as one of ten voluntary groups from Cornwall for the King's Award for Voluntary Service (KAVS) – the highest award given to volunteer-run groups across the UK. To mark the nomination, at the end of September, some of the team were invited to represent Fathoms Free at a special reception at County Hall, hosted by Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, Sir Edward Bolitho KCVO OBE and the Chairman of Cornwall Council, Councillor

What a fantastic first year for our RHIB Stingray, enabling ghost gear recovery dives and helping support other brilliant marine conservation organisations around Cornwall. Since her first recovery at Drakes Island in Plymouth Sound in the spring, Stingray's been busy responding to ghost gear reports around Cornwall's coastline and preventing further unnecessary death to marine life. Stingray and our volunteer skippers have also supported Cornwall Wildlife Trust  Seasearch ef

As part of the Marine Conservation Society  Great British Beach Clean 2025, Peninsula Sub Aqua Club (BSAC)   BSAC - British Sub-Aqua Club  teamed up with Fathoms Free  on Saturday morning to clean the beach at Sennen Cove. The hardy team of volunteers braved the poor weather and switched from scuba gear to raincoats and litter pickers to clear the beach of marine litter and debris. Amongst the litter cleared were the usual cans, plastic containers, broken up polystyrene food