I am breaking my geocaching theme to write about an extraordinary bit of bric-a-brac. I was alerted to this news on the blog of Peter Black.Basically, a cargo of rubber ducks was spilled in the Pacific Ocean way back in 1992. An oceanographer named Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer has been tracking this cargo faithfully. Beachcombersalert.org is his website, dedicated to the tracking of the rubber ducks and other cargo spills of note.
It seems that Ebbesmeyer has attracted periodic press interest across the world. Currently, the rubber ducks of 1992 are headed for the British Isles after a trip around the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. Typical UK Press reports here, and here, and a more erudite article on the science of sea flotsam here.
