Rubber Duck Cargo Ship

The most famous such incident and the one discussed by david attenborough at the weekend was the rubber ducks better known as the friendly floatees.
Rubber duck cargo ship. It s 25 years since an astonishing event that changed the high seas forever. A rubber duck like the flotilla that is currently floating on the world s oceans credit. It was in january 1992 that a ship set sail with an unusual cargo thousands of rubber ducks and lost it. Somewhere in the middle of the pacific ocean nearly 29 000 first years bath toys including bright yellow rubber ducks are spilled from a cargo ship in the pacific ocean.
Currents took them and news reports said. Friendly floatees are plastic rubber ducks marketed by the first years and made famous by the work of curtis ebbesmeyer an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements.