Space Daily September 08, 2026 • 19:28

A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world's ocean currents. - Space Daily

A lost shipment of bath toys became an accidental oceanographic instrument, revealing decades of currents and gyre patterns that scientists couldn't observe any other way.

The container ship Ever Laurel, operated by Evergreen Marine, was three days out of Hong Kong on 10 January 1992, bound across the North Pacific for the port of Tacoma, Washington, when a severe wint… [+9224 chars]

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A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world's ocean currents. - Space Daily

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