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t1_ixa1gws wrote

My favorite story like this is the French coastal town that has sporadically had Garfield telephones wash up of their shores for the last 30 some years. A shipping container went over board in the 80’s and was the source of the Garfield phones.

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t1_ixb5bcv wrote

There's a twitter account called "Lego lost at sea" that does beach litter picks on a beach in Cornwall. A Japanese freighter lost a cargo of Lego and they still find things washing up there.

The cargo was lost in 1987

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t1_ixa3n2q wrote

That seems like a bad omen.

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t1_ixa3zcs wrote

Much better than disembodied feet.

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t1_ixak9en wrote

Requires a subscription to read. Got another source?

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t1_ixahd1w wrote

There was something similar in England with LEGO pieces. Curiously, a disproportionate number of them have been nautical themed pieces (diving flippers, octopi, ship rigging, cutlasses, harpoon guns, etc)

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t1_ixarx0p wrote

Imagine being stranded on a raft, after days in the sun you witness an armada of rubber duckies as far as the eye can see

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t1_ixa0zpq wrote

You can still find ones randomly sometimes. It's getting rarer and rarer of course, but you might get lucky. I've always wanted one.

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t1_ix9zd6g wrote

Another little interesting fact: the container ship that lost comtainer with rubber ducks was owned by Evergreen - the same company whose another ship blocked Suez Canal.

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t1_ixa1mym wrote

Yeah but Evergreen is also one of the largest shipping companies in the world.

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t1_ixauyot wrote

That doesn't make the fact uninteresting. It makes it more relevant today tho...

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t1_ixc3cew wrote

They didnt try to make it unintressting they just explained the reason behind it. Evergreen is probaly responsible a majority of shipping accidents because they do most of the shipping.

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t1_ixao86e wrote

What happened in 2007 then?

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t1_ixaoyq5 wrote

The ducks, realising their worth, went on strike. Their demands weren't met so they quit, en masse.

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t1_ixbwg7y wrote

I really hope the company that made these things marketed the hell out of. 15 yrs in the sun and salt water and they were still floating! That's some impressive manufacturing quality standards.

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t1_ixc7rpo wrote

The last major cluster made landfall in France after making their way from the pacific to the Atlantic via the arctic circle for 15 years

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t1_ixcyccm wrote

Is the northwest passage open or something? I didn’t realize anything could up through the arctic

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t1_ixd1tg1 wrote

The ice sheets of the arctic advance and retreat during the year, I imagine the ducks were trapped in ice frequently before thawing and continuing east over Canada and Greenland.

Edit: duh asked about the northwest passage, ducks were never found in the area which suggested they avoided the tight corridors somehow.

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t1_ixasspr wrote

I appreciate it is an Armada of Rubber Ducks. Where is when you need em

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t1_ixb3y9f wrote

Didn't they die?

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t1_ixb9pls wrote

Really? Fuck I don't know

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t1_ixbp88n wrote

Yeah, around January this year I believe

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t1_ixbwwfp wrote

Citation? A lot of times reddit just makes stuff up.

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t1_ixc8f1u wrote

This sounds like a wild accusation. I'm going to need a source from you.

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t1_ixfr44z wrote

https://www.reddit.com/r/reactiongifs/comments/s5ifq9/mrw_i_find_out_ufuckswithducks_passed_away/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb

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t1_ixaxdom wrote

There’s a children’s book by Eric Carle about this incident called 10 Rubber Ducks!

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t1_ixaxips wrote

Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, wrote an adorable children's book inspired by this called '10 Little Rubber Ducks'. My kids all loved that book.

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t1_ixbq8i9 wrote

Okay, that's the most brutal heavy metal band name.

Rubber Duck Armada.

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t1_ixb1ao7 wrote

And that Mr. Weasley, is the function of a rubber duck.

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t1_ixbkdoa wrote

When I was a kid on Cape Cod one containing mermaid stuffed animals went over board and these things started washing up on shore for something like a year after that. I think my mom still has one.

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t1_ixcrb3n wrote

Yup. The odyssey they went on has always been a story I've enjoyed.

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t1_ixdt7d4 wrote

Shout out to all the red beaver, blue turtle, and green frog Friendly Floatees who are so often forgotten when this story is told.

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t1_ixe1pnr wrote

There’s a book about this (I don’t mean a children’s book).

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