Editing Rubber duck (section)

===Oceanography===
{{Main|Friendly Floatees}}
During a Pacific storm on 10 January 1992, three 40-foot (12&nbsp;m) containers holding 28,800 [[Friendly Floatees]] plastic bathtub toys from a Chinese factory were washed off a ship, containing 7,200 each of blue turtles, yellow ducks, red beavers, and green frogs.<ref name="NationalMena">{{cite news |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena_edition/mena/egypt/what-connects-the-ever-given-the-suez-canal-and-7200-rubber-ducks-loose-in-the-pacific-1.1191975 |title= What connects the 'Ever Given', the Suez Canal and 7,200 rubber ducks loose in the Pacific? |publisher=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)|The National]]|date=1 April 2021 |accessdate=27 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|journal=Earth in Space |volume=7 |issue=2 |date=October 1994 |pages=7–9, 14 |url=http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/ducks.html |title=Pacific Toy Spill Fuels Ocean Current Pathways Research |author=Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer and W. James Ingraham Jr. |doi=10.1029/94EO01056 |bibcode=1994EOSTr..75..425E |access-date=15 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061005100806/http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/ducks.html |archive-date= 5 October 2006 |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Two-thirds of the toys floated south and landed three months later on the shores of Indonesia, Australia, and South America. The remaining 10,000 toys headed north to Alaska and then completed a full circle back near Japan, caught up in the same [[North Pacific Gyre]] current as the so-called [[Great Pacific Garbage Patch]]. Many of the toys then entered the [[Bering Strait]] between [[Alaska]] and Russia and were trapped in the [[Arctic]] ice. They moved through the ice at a rate of one mile (1.6&nbsp;km) per day, and in 2000 they were sighted in the North [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]]. The movement of the toys had been monitored by American [[oceanographer]] [[Curtis Ebbesmeyer]].<ref name=cbs>{{cite web |url= https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rubber-duckies-map-the-world/ |title=Rubber Duckies Map The World |access-date=4 May 2013 |author=CBS |date=31 July 2003 |publisher=CBS}}</ref> Bleached by sun and seawater, the ducks and beavers had faded to white, but the turtles and frogs had kept their original colors.

Between July and December 2003, The First Years Inc. offered a $100 US [[savings bond]] reward to anybody who recovered a Floatee in [[New England]], Canada or Iceland. More of the toys were recovered in 2004 than in any of the preceding three years. However, still more of these toys were predicted to have headed eastward past Greenland and make landfall on the southwestern shores of the United Kingdom in 2007.

These  toys were the subject of [[Donovan Hohn]]'s 2011 book ''[[Moby-Duck|Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea]]''.