Floating Rubber Ducks In The Ocean

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.

Floating rubber ducks in the ocean.

Deliberate disposal of wastes at sea is called ocean dumping. 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. Currents took them and news reports said.

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. 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.