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Subject: Rubber Duckies


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Des Taff Jenkins (Can't remember)
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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 09:15:28am

Hi All.
I have just finished reading about a container of rubber ducks that was washed overboard in 1992, apparently they washed up on beaches all over the world: and one bloke used their positions to map sea currents.
He has since tracked some of the cargo that manages to to escape from the 100 million or so containers that are shipped each year, of which 10,000 fall overboard.
In 2000 a million Lego blocks were lost from three containers in the Atlantic, and he expects some of them to arrive via the artic circle on Alaskan beaches in 2012.
Question--has anyone found anything of interest on a beach, like a message in a bottle
Cheers Des

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Re: Rubber DuckiesGraham R774640 (4 Des)Wednesday, May 14, 09:36:14am
Re: Rubber DuckiesDes Taff Jenkins (Happy fr Graham)Saturday, May 17, 08:12:47am
Re: Rubber DuckiesDes taff Jenkins (Fr Peter)Sunday, May 18, 08:52:45am
Re: Rubber DuckiesPete Smith (Found on the Beach)Tuesday, May 20, 07:16:31pm


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