Curt Ebbesmeyer has been tracking plastic ducks at sea. Dr. Ebbesmeyer, a retired oceanographer, says that anytime now the plastic ducks, and three other plastic species from the same shipment that's already washed up, in part, in Hawaii and Alaska, could turn up in Iceland, Canada or New England.
Today on NPR, Robert Seigel spoke with oceanographer and "flotsamologist"
Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who tracks cargo lost off ships. Ebbesmeyer is currently watching a flock of rubber ducks, which has made its way from the Pacific to the North Atlantic. Listen to the story on All Things Considered Audio. Transcript also available ($4.95).
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I heard (prolly on NPR) a hilarious account by this fellow about the running shoes. (http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/elements/shoes.htm)
He happened to mention them somewhere and it caught the attention of some bargain-seeking Oregon moms. The moms got the erroneous idea that ALL the shoes were going to be landing at one place and at one time. They flocked to the coast and created quite a spectacle as they competitively tried to position their camps on the beaches where it was thought the shoes were likely to come ashore. When weather changed the shoe landing forecast, a traffic snarl occurred in Coos Bay as some of the ladies engaged in an all-out, hair-pulling, purse-swinging, police-summoning brawl over who had the right to be in front of who.
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