Rubber duckies
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A LONG WAY FROM HOME: Oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer has been tracking the paths of toys - such as these - that came from a shipwreck in 1992. JIM INGRAHAM/KRT |
Drifting rubber duckies chart oceans of plastic
By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
PARIS ? Theirs is an epic tale of resilience and pluck, a seafarer's yarn of high-seas adventure that has seen them brave some of the world's wildest waters in their 11-year odyssey from the Pacific Ocean toward landfall in Europe.
They have bobbed through storms that would have wrecked larger vessels, to drift deliberately down the Bering Strait. They have patiently borne a four-year spell trapped in Arctic ice packs, to float freely into the Atlantic.
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