Currents took them and news reports said.
Rubber duck cargo ship.
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.
It s 25 years since an astonishing event that changed the high seas forever.
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.
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 2002 a massive cargo ship the mv.
A rubber duck like the flotilla that is currently floating on the world s oceans credit.