Britain invaded by the Rubber Duckies

No, not something about a weird 1950’s era movie, but sometimes you read funny or remarkable things in the newspaper or in this case a website (nu.nl). The UK will get invaded by thousands of bathtub toys on it’s Southwestern beaches according to the article. Those toys are swept overboard during a storm in 1992 and have been floating ever since (at least most of them). This took place on the Pacific Ocean and the toys where being shipped from Hong Kong to the United States. Depending on ocean currents they have been found in Alaska, Australia, Indonesia, Peru and the Westcoast of North America (after being stuck in the Arctic ice for three years). This fact have made the Friendly Floatees famous as they have been used to model ocean currents.

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