Floating Rubber Ducks In The Ocean

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.

Floating rubber ducks in the ocean.

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. 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. Marine debris also known as marine litter is human created waste that has deliberately or accidentally been released in a sea or ocean floating oceanic debris tends to accumulate at the center of gyres and on coastlines frequently washing aground when it is known as beach litter or tidewrack. Oceanographer curtis ebbesmeyer with flotsam including some friendly floatees that he observes to monitor ocean currents.

Deliberate disposal of wastes at sea is called ocean dumping. After a containment of some 29 000 plastic yellow ducks red beavers blue turtles and green frogs were washed into the pacific in 1992 the little toys began appearing on beaches around the world. Currents took them and news reports said.