A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world's ocean currents.

A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world's ocean currents.

The container ship Ever Laurel, operated by Evergreen Marine, was three days out of Hong Kong on 10 January 1992, bound across the North Pacific for the port of Tacoma, Washington, when a severe winter storm caught the vessel near the International Date Line. Twelve 40-foot intermodal shipping containers slid off the deck during the […]