Rubber ducks nearing end of 15 year globe treking journey

[kallistii]

In a storm on January 10th, 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks, frogs and turtles and beavers escaped from a container in the Pacific ocean. Since then, scientists have been tracking these escapees, who are giving them a wonderful lesson about the ocean currents around the world.




Wonder of wonders, some of the duck have managed to traverse the North West Passage, and have been appearing on the shores of the North Atlantic.

For more info, you can read an article here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=464768&in_page_id=1770

Comments

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised they haven't made them with GPS trackers and such in them, and done this intentionally.

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

Well, they have had a free system that they can see from orbit...I am sure that a cluster of a thousand+ rubber duckies are visiable from orbit!

But it might be an interesting project for oceanographers...a whole bunch of cheap devices which run on solar cells, and can stand up to the blizzards and 50+ C heat...ah...maybe not...sounds kind of expensive just for the base design. I'd go with rubber duckies again! :-)

ttyl

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

You should post this in thelunarsociety!

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Does this mean that the world's oceans are "duc(k)tile"? :-)

I suppose it would be a "golden" opportunity to test that hypothesis too. :-)

From someone who has always been pun to prone ...