No sea serpents, mobsters but Tahoe trash divers strike gold
In addition to removing 25,000 pounds (11,339 kilograms) of underwater litter [from Lake Tahoe] since last May, divers and volunteers have been meticulously sorting and logging the types and GPS locations of the waste. The dozens of dives that concluded this week were part of a first-of-its-kind effort to learn more about the source and potential harm caused by plastics and other pollutants in the storied alpine lake on the California-Nevada line.