Apparently, it's golf balls.
From cnn.com:
It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem. The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists -- who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the prehistoric Loch Ness monster -- were surprised to find hundreds of thousands of golf balls lining the bed of the loch. It is thought tourists and locals have used the loch as an alternative driving range for many years.
It would be kind of sad if Nessie died choking on a golf ball.
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According to this site: http://www.golfproductnews.com/golf-practice-101-your-home-on-the-range/
A golfer can usually use a bucket of 50-75 balls in about half an hour.
Under those conditions only about 2000 people would need to have used the lake as a driving range ever to put 100,000 balls in the water. While that's a lowball estimate (not everyone has 75 balls to waste) it sounds pretty likely to me.
I look forward to the wave of sightings when they all hatch! 😉
Can we all have a look at wikipedia about what a scientist is?
A scientist, to my best understanding "performs experiments whereby input variables are manipulated and results are analyzed using appropriate statistical methods"
That's about 100,000,000 miles from looking for golf balls in a lake.
They may be scientists in other circumstances but in this, they are technicians at best.
Joel B1 (BSc(Hon))