Friendly Floatees spill

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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.

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Image: Original photo: Rick Rickman Photo re-work: Liberal Freemason at German Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.