The post 28,800 Rubber Ducks Accidentally Went On An Unexpected Ocean Journey In 1992 And Helped Scientists Map Currents ...

including yellow rubber ducks, fell into the Pacific Ocean in January 1992, it allowed scientists such as Curtis Ebbesmeyer to gain insight into the hidden world of ocean currents. Over the years ...

If you’ve got a duck as a bath ... Subtropical Gyre current. They were so numerous and indestructible that they even helped oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer to map ocean currents by tracking ...

Sensing an opportunity, scientists started tracking the ducks’ movements and locations to learn more about ocean currents. In 2008, researchers at Nasa dropped 90 rubber ducks in the Jakobshavn ...