i know dozens of old fishing nets are caught on a shipwreck off lithuania's coast sabina caco and hercrew are going to bring them up. is a pharmacist and one of germany's most experienced divers. in 2016 she noticed a particular kind of waste in the baltic sea all trolling and fishing 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 find no shortage of nets to marine animals their deadly traps. care cow on the other divers try to cut the net away with simple knives but make no headway eventually they abandon the operation. some of these nets are decades old and aren't about to give up easily. they're made of all kinds of materials and the