What is Friendly Floatees?
{{Orphan|date=May 2009}} [[Image:Friendly Floatees.png|thumb|Travel of the Friendly Floatees]]<!--really nice map but a bit inaccurate; spill occurred much farther north, just south of the Aleutians--> [[Image:Curtis Ebbesmeyer.JPG|thumb|[[Oceanographer]] [[Curtis Ebbesmeyer]] with [[flotsam]] (including some Friendly Floatees) that he uses to monitor [[ocean currents]].]]'''Friendly Floatees''' are a kind of [[plastic]] bath toys like [[duck]]s and other [[bird]]s. They are made so that they float very well. They became famous because a [[cargo]] ship lost many of them. [[Curtis Ebbsmeyer]] then used these to study [[Ocean current|currents]] in the ocean. {{stub}} [[Category:Toys]] [[Category:Oceanography]]