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This is terrible and pathetic, some people have no heart or soul...
Doomed to die in the 'ghost net':
Sea creatures including SHARKS are trapped and killed in gigantic 1,600ft netting floating around the Caribbean after it was abandoned by trawlermen
Heartbreaking images have revealed how a huge mass of abandoned fishing nets are drifting in the Caribbean Sea, indiscriminately catching and killing dozens of sea creatures.
British dive instructor Dominick Martin-Mayes discovered the shocking 'ghost net' drifting north of Grand Cayman, in the Cayman Islands, on Monday afternoon.
Mr Martin-Mayes, a graduate in marine biology, told MailOnline he spotted numerous shark species and fish entangled, including tripletail, ocean yellowtail, and ocean turbot.
'The surface of it was only probably about 50 feet in diameter, but just like an iceberg, 90 per cent of the mass is underneath, and they were miles and miles of netting just tangled up and embedded in themselves, below the water, just disappearing into the depths,' he explained.
It is unknown where the nets were originally abandoned by fishermen. Once cast aside, old fishing nets can drift with the currents for hundreds of miles, sucking up anything in their path.
Local authorities have been informed about the sighting and Cayman 27 reports the Department of Environment is asking that any further sightings be reported, along with a GPS waypoint.
Doomed to die in the 'ghost net':
Sea creatures including SHARKS are trapped and killed in gigantic 1,600ft netting floating around the Caribbean after it was abandoned by trawlermen
- Mass of nets was found drifting near the Cayman Islands on Monday afternoon
- British dive instructor Dominick Martin-Mayes managed to free some creatures
- A juvenile white tip shark was among the dozens of creatures trapped
- But it was too dangerous to help them all and 'ghost net' has now drifted away
- Discarded fishing nets can drift with the currents for hundreds of miles, sucking up anything in their path
Heartbreaking images have revealed how a huge mass of abandoned fishing nets are drifting in the Caribbean Sea, indiscriminately catching and killing dozens of sea creatures.
British dive instructor Dominick Martin-Mayes discovered the shocking 'ghost net' drifting north of Grand Cayman, in the Cayman Islands, on Monday afternoon.
Mr Martin-Mayes, a graduate in marine biology, told MailOnline he spotted numerous shark species and fish entangled, including tripletail, ocean yellowtail, and ocean turbot.
'The surface of it was only probably about 50 feet in diameter, but just like an iceberg, 90 per cent of the mass is underneath, and they were miles and miles of netting just tangled up and embedded in themselves, below the water, just disappearing into the depths,' he explained.
It is unknown where the nets were originally abandoned by fishermen. Once cast aside, old fishing nets can drift with the currents for hundreds of miles, sucking up anything in their path.
Local authorities have been informed about the sighting and Cayman 27 reports the Department of Environment is asking that any further sightings be reported, along with a GPS waypoint.
