Rubber Duck Facts

During a Pacific storm on January 10, 1992, three 40-foot containers holding 29,000 Friendly Floatees plastic bath toys from a Chinese factory were washed off a ship.

Two-thirds of the ducks floated south and landed three months later on the shores of Indonesia, Australia, and South America. The remaining 10,000 ducks headed north to Alaska and then completed a full circle back near Japan, caught up in the North Pacific Gyre current as the so called Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Many of the ducks then entered the Bering Straitbetween Alaska and Russia and were trapped in the Arctic ice. They moved through the ice at a rate of one mile per day, and in 2000 they were sighted in the North Atlantic.

The movement of the ducks had been monitored by American oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer.

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Fact Page: In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
Date Added: 2011-02-24 20:06:09
Fact Category: Weird Fact