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.

[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 ...