Rubber Ducks In The Ocean

Ebbesmeyer studied the movements of a consignment of 29 000 friendly floatees yellow ducks red beavers blue turtles and green frogs which were washed into the pacific ocean in 1992.

Rubber ducks in the ocean.

I learn vocabulary and i listen many time until i understand perfect. Now the amazing seafaring odyssey of 28 000. Friendly floatees are plastic 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. What happened to them is the subject of donovan hohn s book moby duck.

When a container of bath toys including yellow rubber ducks fell into the pacific ocean in january 1992 it allowed scientists such as curtis ebbesmeyer to gain insight into the hidden world of. For example the first group of ducks to make landfall washed up on the shores of alaska. I like de english club. The rubber ducks lost in the ocean.

Was a very interesting lesson because its very important to maintain the ocean clean. Somewhere in the middle of the pacific ocean nearly 29 000 first years bath toys including bright yellow rubber ducks are spilled from a cargo ship in the pacific ocean. These ducks traveled thousands of miles on ocean currents providing new information about these currents. Our teacher share us the link and he said i recommend this page to continuing studying englis from your house.

Apply ocean conveyor belt information to predict the movement of rubber ducks. As a class have students predict where the ducks traveled based. In 1992 28 800 rubber ducks were lost at sea.