Friendly Floatees spill
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friendly-floatees-spill-166-3163432
title:
Friendly Floatees spill
text:
Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys marketed by The First Years and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements. Ebbesmeyer studied the movements of a consignment of 28,800 Friendly Floatees—yellow ducks, red beavers, blue turtles, and green frogs—that were washed into the Pacific Ocean in 1992. Some of the toys landed along Pacific Ocean shores, such as Hawaii. Others traveled over 27,000 kilometres (17,000 mi),
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Plastic rubber ducks used in oceanography
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees_spill
date created:
2006-08-04T20:31:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T18:33:32Z
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image:
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13
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