Escaped rubber ducks tracked ocean current patterns

[snopes]

Comment: There is a rumor that a container ship in the Pacific sank, and
one of the containers burst open with a load of rubber ducks. The NOAA
then traced the floating path of these rubber ducks all the way around the
North American continent to the Atlantic, revising their records of
currents and flow patterns as a result.

[me, no really]

Sounds like the story from a few years back about a container of Lego pieces that was lost off a ship.

me

[Astra]

Rub A Duck has a good collection of links regarding the lost ducks. For the scientific tracking project, there's a good article here and one relating to melting glaciers here.

[llewtrah]

There have been a few such studies relating to where lost cargo washes up IIRC. I'm sure there was one relating to a lost cargo of training shoes.

[Floater]

With or without feet in them?