Christine Grosart

Christine Grosart is a cave diver and explorer. She holds the British women’s cave diving depth record. She is a trustee and team leader of the charity Ghost Fishing UK and co-organises beach cleans in Dorset, UK.

Christine Grosart
Occupationscuba diver
Known forcave diving and exploring

Career

Following her family's interests, Grosart learnt scuba diving as a child. After leaving school at 16, she has had a diverse career. She initially worked in horse-racing for 10 years. During this time she also took a degree in Geosciences with the Open University. In 2004 she changed to train within the ambulance service, becoming qualified as a paramedic in 2010 with a degree from the University of the West of England.[1]

She started cave diving with the Cave Diving Group in 2005 and has subsequently explored caves in the UK, France, Croatia and the USA. She is now an examiner for the Cave Diving Group. By 2016 she had qualified as a dive medic. Grosart achieved a women’s solo cave diving depth record at Wookey Hole Caves, UK in 2009.[2][3]

She works as a professional caving instructor with her own company and as a dive medic on saturation dive vessels in the North Sea.[1]

Grosart is involved with the charity GhostFishing UK that was founded around 2013.[4] She is the charity's secretary, a trustee and also a team diver and underwater photographer. She has led removal of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear from the sea around the British Isles that would otherwise cause a hazard to humans and animals in the sea.[5][6][7]

Awards

In November 2020 she was included in the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Power list 2020 because of her work as a volunteer diver GhostFishing UK and organisation of cleaning beaches in Devon.[8]

References
  1. "Christine Crosart". Wet Wellies Caving. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. "Girls that Cave Dive: Christine Grosart at the fore-front of cave diving exploration". Girls that cave dive. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  3. Smith, Bob (10 November 2018). "Kendal prepares for Britain's biggest outdoors festival with star-studded line-up". Grough. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. "Frequently Asked Questions: Who is behind Ghost Fishing UK?". GhostFishing UK. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  5. Evans, Mark. "Ghost Fishing UK returns to the sea after COVID-19 lockdown". Scuba Diver. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  6. "Lost fishing net trapping hundreds of marine animals recovered by divers in Plymouth". ITV News. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  7. Rossiter, Keith (9 August 2017). "Deadly 'ghosts' are tamed by divers". Plymouth Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  8. "Woman's Hour Power List 2020: The List". BBC Radio4. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
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