On this blog post: news article on how an accident helped researchers learn more about the currents in the Pacific Ocean. Reading + FCE Open Cloze
"It's amazing what a duck can teach you."
"It's amazing what a duck can teach you."
-Curt Ebbesmeyer, oceanographer
In 1992 thousands of rubber ducks and other toys went overboard during a storm in the
Pacific Ocean. The toys have since been found all over the world; and scientists around the
world have used the incident to gain a better understanding of ocean currents.
Pacific Ocean. The toys have since been found all over the world; and scientists around the
world have used the incident to gain a better understanding of ocean currents.
You can find a timeline of their voyage around the globe from 1992 until 2007 here
Watch this video and do the quiz that follows.
Open Cloze Task
Answers here.
Open Cloze Part Two
Link to this blog
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