sea is awash with what are called ghost nets lost or abandoned fishing nets made of plastic the bina cacodiscovered the problem years ago now is she leads a team of volunteers who treats the nets from the seabed a painstaking process. some final instructions before the diver. out of the nets look. i don't like dozens of old fishing nets are caught on a shipwreck off lithuanians coast sabina caco and her crew are going to bring them up. care cow is a pharmacist and one of germany's most experienced divers. in 2016 she noticed a particular kind of waste in the baltic sea hold trolling and dishing nets. a study revealed that thousands of nets are lost in the baltic every year. europe has to lay the foundation for plastic to be prohibited as far as possible. 10 percent of the plastic trash in the seas consists of ghost nets. and when they degrade they release micro plastics and vast quantities. every year care cowan or fellow divers set out from lithuania to bring up the ghost nets on a voluntary basis they finance their operations mostly out of their own pockets. once at the wreck the divers