Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Maine Maritime Museum in Bath

My Sweetie and I expected the ship models, the naval paintings, the fishing equipment, and all things nautical. We did not expect to learn about the Friendly Floatees.

In 1992, a container of 28,800 rubber duckies broke lose and washed overboard in the Pacific. Oceanographers have been tracking them ever since. Finding them in the Atlantic has confirmed trans-polar currents.

I am smiling as I think of hardened sailors collecting Friendly Floatees on the bounding main.



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  1. BoonaJanuary 27, 2011 at 10:52 PM

    Email from Jan May 27, 2010, at 8:43 AM

    Too cool. Maybe I will set mine afloat someday. How will I know where they end up? Hmmm. Not into GPSing them.

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