Ok, so a container of plastic toys gets swept of a ship in a north Pacific storm, 29,000 plastic bathtub toys are set loose, over time many made their way under the Arctic icecap, emerging in the Atlantic !!! Having scattered along the north west coast of North America, due to arrive in the UK sometime this year, on the south western coasts.
There was a US$100 reward for ducks and beavers, they are almost white see keep a beady eye if your in the area found on the New England, Canada and Iceland coast, until December 2003,
Four types of data points !A previous storm in 1990 that sent 21 containers from one ship included 80,000 serial numbered Nike shoes in five containers. All these containers are an actual boon to oceanographers who use them to plot ocean currents. From the man doing the study. There are some interesting stories there.
World wide over a thousand containers are lost at sea, one such storm in the Atlantic significantly affected the price of French wines in the USA one year. Practically the whole years vintage was on one ship.
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