prepare for the beach event of the decade!
Ebbesmeyer explains the bevy of 3-inch-high rubber duckies (emblazoned with the words "The First Years" across their chests and mostly likely faded from yellow to white) are among the estimated 29,000 bathtub toys packed in 20 giant containers that fell off a ship in January 1992. The ducks are expected to wash up on New England coasts soon, along with rubber red beavers, green frogs and blue turtles that also toppled off the ship. Computer models show the toys, which were being shipped from China to Seattle when they went overboard, have floated 15,000 miles along the Alaska coast through the Bering Strait and along Labrador to Nova Scotia. They're expected to wash up soon on U.S. Eastern shores.
Ebbesmeyer explains the bevy of 3-inch-high rubber duckies (emblazoned with the words "The First Years" across their chests and mostly likely faded from yellow to white) are among the estimated 29,000 bathtub toys packed in 20 giant containers that fell off a ship in January 1992. The ducks are expected to wash up on New England coasts soon, along with rubber red beavers, green frogs and blue turtles that also toppled off the ship. Computer models show the toys, which were being shipped from China to Seattle when they went overboard, have floated 15,000 miles along the Alaska coast through the Bering Strait and along Labrador to Nova Scotia. They're expected to wash up soon on U.S. Eastern shores.
