(Oct. 12) -- There's something lurking in the depths of Loch Ness, Scotland, and it has nothing to do with monsters. On a recent expedition to try and find evidence of the Loch Ness monster, U.S. research teams came across something quite unexpected -- not a prehistoric creature of the deep, but thousands of plastic covered golf balls.
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Mike O'Brien of SeaTrepid explains: "At first we thought they were mushrooms, there were so many. But when we lowered the camera, we were surprised to see that they were in fact golf balls."
The balls were found roughly 300 yards from the beach and 100 yards from the shore where it is thought locals and visitors have been using the loch to practice their driving skills for quite some time. One witness, conservationist Adrian Shine, told CNN he had seen locals launching balls almost 300 feet into the waters.
However, Shine doesn't believe this to be an environmental threat: "Certainly it's undesirable, but I don't think it will have a significant environmental impact on the loch." It seems missing and discarded golf balls may not be bad news for all concerned. David Roston has built a career out of wading through rivers and diving in lakes to collect and re-sell discarded golf balls. His online company, www.lakeballs.co.uk, had been retailing "lake balls" for almost 10 years, but even his powers of retrieval would be challenged by the monstrous task of recovering balls from the bottom of loch. "I've dived in various lakes and found 10 to 15 thousand golf balls at a time, it's incredible -- but we've never attempted to clear a loch!" Bobbing along at a depth of 754 feet, it's unlikely these balls of Loch Ness will ever see the light of day again.
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I wonder what Nessie has been doing....
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Post by: Adelaide on October 12, 2009, 08:34:05 PM
Nessie plays golf! =3 YAY!
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Post by: Flashwerewolf on October 12, 2009, 09:37:58 PM
lol Theres a golf course nearby? Didnt know that
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Post by: ShinamoriAoshi on October 12, 2009, 11:31:48 PM
I somehow didn't put in the rest of the article. Oh well, its there now.
Title: Re: Thousands of Golf Balls Found at Bottom of Loch Ness
Post by: Adelaide on October 13, 2009, 12:57:39 AM
o.o well then... Dx golfers shouldnt be allowed to golf by natural lakes.. Man made lakes, whatever. Natural ones?! No! >=[
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Post by: Flashwerewolf on October 13, 2009, 02:18:22 AM
They shouldnt suck at golf near lakes XD
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Post by: Adelaide on October 13, 2009, 03:03:12 AM
That too.
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Post by: kinjo on October 13, 2009, 08:47:11 AM
you dont think people come and instead of throwing rocks, they hit golf balls into the water to try and get loch ness monsters attention [sumo]
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Post by: Adelaide on October 13, 2009, 07:33:54 PM
D= but... is mean!
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Post by: Flashwerewolf on October 13, 2009, 09:15:38 PM
Its not mean if it doesnt exist to be mean to! [assmonster]
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Post by: Adelaide on October 13, 2009, 09:32:26 PM
But you dunno if it exists or not =O And there is SOMETHING living in that lake... fish... something.... they dun want yo golf balls in there homes!
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Post by: Flashwerewolf on October 13, 2009, 09:54:29 PM
Fish is a bad example, I'd use beavers cause they are cewter and have longer memories.
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Post by: Adelaide on October 13, 2009, 09:57:04 PM