Rubber Duck Cargo Ship

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.

Rubber duck cargo ship.

It was in january 1992 that a ship set sail with an unusual cargo thousands of rubber ducks and lost it. 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. Currents took them and news reports said. 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.

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. In 1992 a cargo ship container tumbled into the north pacific dumping 28 000 rubber ducks and other bath toys that were headed from china to the u s.