Rubber Duck Cargo Ship

In 2002 a massive cargo ship the mv.

Rubber duck cargo ship.

It s 25 years since an astonishing event that changed the high seas forever. 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. A rubber duck like the flotilla that is currently floating on the world s oceans credit. 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.

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. 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.