"My dad raised me underwater,"

[underpants]

Teenage Diver Finds Tons Of Golf Balls Rotting Off California

A diver in California has stumbled on an unexpected source of plastic waste in the ocean: golf balls.

Then she heard about a Stanford University scientist, Matt Savoca, who studied plastic waste in the ocean. She emailed him, and he came to look at her collection.

Savoca was impressed. Weber recalls that he turned to her and said, " 'You should write a paper about this,' and I was like, 'Matt, I'm 16 years old. I don't know how to write a scientific paper!' "

Over two years, they found more than 50,000 golf balls. The source: five golf courses. Two along the coastline, and three up the Carmel River — those golf balls rolled underwater down the river to the ocean.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686257550/teenage-diver-finds-tons-of-golf-balls-rotting-off-california

[Ohiogal]

1. That's just really appalling.

I can just picture a bunch of rich entitled white guys hitting balls into the ocean for fun.

And even if they are just errant balls, you'd think there would be some kind of ordinance requiring netting or something to keep them from landing in the ocean and ruining the water.

I have been on a beach before, in Florida many times, and saw dudes bring a bucket of balls to the beach and just hit them into the ocean. I am surprised this isn't illegal.