MIRI: A group of nine divers volunteered in another operation to remove ghost nets at Miri Sibuti Coral Reefs National Park recently.
This is their third operation at Seafan Garden where a lot of sea fans and sea whips lay.
Even though the visibility was only about three to five metres and the swell on surface was about 0.5 metre, the divers managed to accumulate 51kg of ghost nets.
They were using nitrox (a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen used as a breathing gas) with 30 per cent oxygen due to its depth at about 16 to 21m deep.
The volunteers consist of three dive instructors, one divemaster, three divemaster trainees and one advanced open water diver lead by Iqbal Abdollah (Borneo Ghost Nets Hunter).
There are still a lot of nets underwater — an estimation of about 200 kg — and may require two more operations to remove it all due to the depth and age of the nets.
