HOT: Sam Harrison makes $150,000 a year diving for lost golf balls in lakes

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Sam Harrison makes $150k per year diving for lost golf balls in lakes.

Sam Harrison, a banker based in London, co-founded Lake Ball Diving and estimates that he can earn up to £100,000 ($150,000) annually by collecting and selling golf. balls, with an average of 5,000 balls found in each lake. Would you do this for $150k?

Get him in a lake, however, and the 22-year-old is a real-life treasure hunter with the instinct of a shark, able to uncover his prey in zero visibility and sub-zero temperatures.

In this case, the prey is golf balls. And with an estimated 300 million of the wayward white orbs lost in the U.S. alone each year, there is serious money to be made from their recovery – if you’re willing to take the plunge.

Imagine swimming in a milkshake of silt. Now add weeds, broken bottles and every type of critter from leeches, to water snakes, even crocodiles, and you’ve pretty much got the idea of the perils of golf-ball diving.