Rubber Ducks Overboard!

I just read a review in the New York Times Book Review of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them By Donovan Hohn. The books story stems from a real event in 1992 when a container ship, in the North Pacific, carrying bath toys loses its cargo--namely 28,800 rubber ducks, blue turtles, and green frogs. The bath toys took until 2000 to make it to the North Atlantic, and are found on beaches in New England. There is a very interesting article about the event in the Daily Mail that has a timeline of where the bath toys have been found, and map of where they traveled. Donovan Hohn trys to answer the questions where did the ducks come from, where did they drift, and why? Of course, if you are looking for a more simplistic version of events you could read Eric Carle's picture book 10 Little Rubber Ducks which is also based on the 1992 event. :)