Aeerghhh, a vast armada of floating rubber ducks is about to invade Cornwall:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/28/doomed_ducks_sail_oceans_for_all_eternity/
The tale of the floating, whitened bird-simulacra migration is a strange one, dating back many years. It seems that the plastic bathtime companions were originally made in China. They were on their way to America in 1992 when a terrible storm struck their vessel in mid-Pacific, and shipping containers holding 30,000 of the hapless playthings were washed overboard.Ten thousand of the plastic anatidaens ... went north, embarking on an endless odyssey across the world's oceans. Like the legendary Captain Vanderdecken in his ill-omened ghost ship the Flying Dutchman, the flocks of plastic kiddy-pals seemed doomed to roam the oceans for eternity.
Apparently they're worth �500 each if you can catch one, so anyone in the UK might be advised to head on down to the Cornish coast.