10 Most Bizarre Professions You Didn’t Know Existed

8 Professional Golf Ball Divers

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What if you could spend all of your workdayson golf courses—diving? When golfers hit a ball into a water trap, most of them look at the offending obstacle, say something nasty and settle in to launch another little white ball. Ok, so the water’s neither clear like the Caribbean nor colorful like a coral wall off the Great Barrier Reef. It’s a cold, nasty, dirty job, but someone’s got to do it. For golf ball divers, a bad day of golf is a good day of work. Golf ball divers dive about four days a week and on an average day collect approximately 4,000 golf balls.

Also, golf ball divers have made up to $100,000 annually. Now I got your attention, right?