Website review: Thousands of rubber ducks to land o...
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•7 reviews since Jun 27, 2007
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- lovelyladykatie rated 11 months ago
- From the page: "rubber duck" My mom is a rubber duckie FREAK. She got a tattoo of one on her foot last year at the age of... nevermind... we'll just say I'm 25 and she finally gets a tattoo after complaining about me all these years... anyhoo... this is awesome.
iheartyouheartme rated 13 months ago- I know where I'm gonna be this summer.
- s2bmh rated 13 months ago
10 JANUARY 1992: 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.
16 NOVEMBER 1992: Caught in the Subpolar Gyre (counter-clockwise ocean current in the Bering Sea, between Alaska and Siberia), the ducks take 10 months to begin landing on the shores of Alaska.
EARLY 1995: The ducks take three years to circle around. East from the drop site to Alaska, then west and south to Japan before turning back north and east passing the original drop site and again landing in North America. Some ducks are even found In Hawaii. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) worked out that the ducks travel approximately 50 per pent faster than the water in the current.
1995 - 2000: Some intrepid ducks escape the Subpolar Gyre and head North, through the Bering Straight and into the frozen waters of the Arctic. Frozen into the ice the ducks travel slowly across the pole, moving ever eastward.
2000: Ducks begin reaching the North Atlantic where they begin to thaw and move Southward. Soon ducks are sighted bobbing in the waves from Maine to Massachusetts.
2001: Ducks are tracked in the area where the Titanic sank.
JULY TO DECEMBER 2003: The First Years company offers a $100 savings bond reward for the recovery of wayward ducks from the 1992 spill. To be valid ducks must be sent to the company and must be found in New England, Canada or Iceland. Britain is told to prepare for an invasion of the wayward ducks as well.
- jasonstone rated 13 months ago
- Yeah! The ducks finally found a home. Thanks to AZkitchen for the link
- RiaU rated 13 months ago
- Apparently these little duckies are strong. A 17,000 mile journey and they're still nice and safe so how is it that a baby can murder one in a few days? Oh that's right, babies are EVIL.
