Started by Inês Carvalho (@tidepoolkid) ·
28,000 rubber ducks fell into the Pacific and taught us about ocean currents
A container of bath toys went overboard in 1992. Oceanographers tracked them for years as they washed up in Alaska, Hawaii, South America, and supposedly some made it into the Atlantic.
5 sources · 26 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “rubber ducks lost at sea 1992”
- Ended at
- Message in a bottle
The Trail
- “rubber ducks lost at sea 1992” (google.com)
- Friendly Floatees spill (en.wikipedia.org)
- Curtis Ebbesmeyer (en.wikipedia.org)
- Ocean current (en.wikipedia.org)
- Message in a bottle (en.wikipedia.org)
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