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2. Friendly Floatees spill - Wikipedia

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   Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys (including rubber ducks) marketed by The First Years and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements. Ebbesmeyer studied the movements of a consignment of 28,800 Friendly Floatees—yellow ducks, red beavers, blue turtles, and ...

3. AN/SLQ-49 Chaff Buoy Decoy System - Wikipedia

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   Decoys on USS Moosbrugger (DD-980). The AN/SLQ-49 Chaff Buoy Decoy System, commonly referred to as "Rubber Duck", consists of inflatable radar-reflecting decoy buoys.It is used by the U.S. Navy, Royal Navy, and other NATO countries.

4. Moby-Duck - Wikipedia

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   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 is a book by Donovan Hohn concerning 28,800 plastic ducks and other toys, known as the Friendly Floatees, which were washed overboard from a container ship in the Pacific Ocean on 10 January 1992 and have subsequently ...

5. Duck, duck, cruise: What to know about rubber ducks on ... - AOL

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6. Curtis Ebbesmeyer - Wikipedia

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   Keith C. Heidorn, 'Of Shoes And Ships And Rubber Ducks And A Message In A Bottle', The Weather Doctor (March 17, 1999). Retrieved 3 August 2006. Kevin Krajick, 'Message in a Bottle', Smithsonian Magazine, July 2001. Retrieved 3 August 2006. Jane Standley, 'Ducks' odyssey nears end', BBC News, 12 July 2003. Retrieved 3 August 2006.

7. Rubber duck - Wikipedia

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   A rubber duck or a rubber duckie is a toy shaped like a duck, that is usually yellow with a flat base. It may be made of rubber or rubber-like material such as vinyl plastic . [ 1 ] Rubber ducks were invented in the late 1800s when it became possible to more easily shape rubber, [ 2 ] and are believed to improve developmental skills in children ...