Rubber Ducks In The Ocean

I learn vocabulary and i listen many time until i understand perfect.

Rubber ducks in the ocean. For example the first group of ducks to make landfall washed up on the shores of alaska. Now the amazing seafaring odyssey of 28 000. 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. For these rubber duckies the world s oceans have been their epic bathtub after they were washed overboard and released into the high sea 25 years ago.

Apply ocean conveyor belt information to predict the movement of rubber ducks. I like de english club. These ducks traveled thousands of miles on ocean currents providing new information about these currents. As a class have students predict where the ducks traveled based.

Our teacher share us the link and he said i recommend this page to continuing studying englis from your house. The rubber ducks lost in the ocean. Though the rubber ducks have helped raise awareness about the gyre. 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.

Ebbesmeyer studied the movements of a consignment of 29 000 friendly floatees yellow ducks red beavers blue turtles and green frogs which were washed into the pacific ocean in 1992. Was a very interesting lesson because its very important to maintain the ocean clean. What happened to them is the subject of donovan hohn s book moby duck.