A weekend at sea with Ghost Fishing ,North Sea Cleanup and Healthy Seas to ‘catch nets’. Turns out to be the Jackpot!
Annet van Aarsen was there
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Skipper Gert is proudly standing in the wheelhouse of the Bela. ‘What a good worker’ he smiles pointing to the grab on the deck. ‘The first time I worked with it ,I continued for 30 hours ,so much fun!

Originally he was a fisherman, but now he is a captain on a tugboat. The weekend of 25 and 26 October he makes a special trip. He is helping Henk de Bloeme ,from the salvage vessel Bela at Stellendam and the North Sea Cleanup initiative. The target is the Peepotwreck, in the centre of te North Sea, to free it from a lot of beamernets and gillnets.

The Ghost Fishing diveteam already had spent a lot of energy without much result, too big, too much and too heavy to cut it loose and bring it up in one dive. Now the people behind North Sea Cleanup, Healthy Seas and Ghost Fishing combine their efforts to do the job. And as we are at sea with a strong capable vesse like the Bela, we investigate at the same time a few unknown wrecks.

Saterdaymorning at about nine we are situated right over the ‘Peepotwreck’. At the Starboardside goes a huge anchor overboard. At the Portside goes the hydraulic grab. Via the underwatercameras and the monitors in the wheelhouse is clearly visible when the grab reaches the seabottom close to the shipwreck, at a depth just over thirty meter. The water is cristalclear, at the monitors are nets visible right away.
‘Lets grab them’ , says Henk de Bloeme.

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