Legends tell of sultry sirens luring unsuspecting sailors to their deaths, but now garden gnomes are enticing divers to the depths of Lake Wastwater, the Cumbria News and Star reported this week.
Despite the attempts of the police to evict the gnomes from their underwater home, they are being replaced as fast as they are removed.
Local divers have known about the gnome garden in Lake Wastwater for years. "It's a bit of a secret society among divers, which no one is meant to know about," said Paul Renucci, a diver from Carlisle.
"Divers from all over the country have been coming to Wastwater for years to visit the garden and have tried to keep it quiet. I've seen around 40 gnomes down there but there must be more."
The attempts by the police's Underwater Search Unit to remove the offending gnomes have been thwarted by divers who keep adding to the collection.
The garden is near an area of the lake known as the Pinnacles. A rope leads directly to the garden from the surface. The gnome garden has been so popular with divers that a similar one is planned at Ullswater.
Wastwater is not the only lake in Cumbria with an underwater attraction. At the bottom of Coniston Water, divers have installed a complete bathroom. Handy should the call of nature strike the excessively modest at 60 metres down.
Despite the attempts of the police to evict the gnomes from their underwater home, they are being replaced as fast as they are removed.
Local divers have known about the gnome garden in Lake Wastwater for years. "It's a bit of a secret society among divers, which no one is meant to know about," said Paul Renucci, a diver from Carlisle.
"Divers from all over the country have been coming to Wastwater for years to visit the garden and have tried to keep it quiet. I've seen around 40 gnomes down there but there must be more."
The attempts by the police's Underwater Search Unit to remove the offending gnomes have been thwarted by divers who keep adding to the collection.
The garden is near an area of the lake known as the Pinnacles. A rope leads directly to the garden from the surface. The gnome garden has been so popular with divers that a similar one is planned at Ullswater.
Wastwater is not the only lake in Cumbria with an underwater attraction. At the bottom of Coniston Water, divers have installed a complete bathroom. Handy should the call of nature strike the excessively modest at 60 metres down.
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