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This was recently posted on cryptozoology.com... the poster there who found it found it on a Christian fundamentalist/creationist site, so i won't directly link to that site, but that site claims the source was a Yahoo news report from last July...
Mysterious Mass Discovered In Lake
by Jonathan Drake
S: Yahoo News (8-18-03)
It's a gigantic mysterious mass, and it's about the size of a whale. Even stranger, it was found, not lying in the shallows of some ocean, but rather about 30 feet down in one of Ireland's deepest lakes.
How deep? About 250 feet (75m). Muckross Lake, as it's commonly known, seems to have been the home of some large animal. The huge mass was found during an acoustic survey of stocks of arctic char. Paddy O'Sullivan, National Parks and Wildlife Service regional manager, said a group of international scientists were studying the char using very sophisticated equipment to take soundings when they found ... well ... it.
What was it doing? Apparently just floating about 10 meters down. Interestingly, its shape tapers off at either end.
"They found something very unusual. A large mass within the lake," said O'Sullivan. "At first I thought it might be a seal but they said it was much, much bigger than that -- it was as big as the biggest whale."
Unfortunately, the mystery mass may not be solved for awhile as cutbacks in research budgets mean they do not stretch to hiring the sophisticated equipment for another survey.
"The only way to find out what it is is to go back and look again and see if it has moved. The fact that there has been a lot of interest may mean someone will come along with funding," he said.