The Armada of Lost Plastic Ducks

The armada of Floatee bath toys consists of yellow ducks, green frogs, blue turtles and red beavers, each marked with the logo 'The First Years'. They've been wandering the oceans since 1992, when the ship on which they were traveling from China to Tacoma, Washington, on the north-west coast of the U.S., was hit by a freak storm in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Twelve cargo units were washed overboard, one containing the ducks. It split open when it hit the water and out popped the Floatees. Dr Ebbesmeyer is the world's leading authority on the Floatees. He first found out about the ducks when a few of the plastic raft made their first landfall, drifting onto the shores of Alaska in November 1992.