Friendly Floatees

Friendly Floatees are a kind of plastic bath toys like ducks and other birds. They are made so that they float very well. They became famous because a cargo ship lost many of them. Curtis Ebbsmeyer then used these to study currents in the

Travel of the Friendly Floatees

Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer with flotsam (including some Friendly Floatees) that he uses to monitor ocean currents.