Floating Rubber Ducks In The Ocean

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.

Floating rubber ducks in the ocean.

It all began back in somewhere in the middle of the pacific ocean a consignment of first years bath toys including bright yellow rubber ducks were spilled from the greek owned merchant ship. When a container of bath toys including yellow rubber ducks fell into the pacific ocean in january 1992 it allowed scientists such as curtis ebbesmeyer to gain insight into the hidden world of. After a containment of some 29 000 plastic yellow ducks red beavers blue turtles and green frogs were washed into the pacific in 1992 the little toys began appearing on beaches around the world. Today the north pacific gyre is also home to what has been called the great pacific ocean garbage patch a massive island of floating debris mostly plastic that the gyre stirs like a giant pot of.

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. Deliberate disposal of wastes at sea is called ocean dumping.