#Friendly Floatees

[hivisduck]

Coffee

#coffee #duck #friendly floatees

[alphabetsoup-blogposts]

I keep thinking, for some reason, of the “Friendly Floatees”. Do you remember?

In 1992, 28,000 rubber ducks were washed overboard when the Ever Laurel encountered a storm en route from China to Tacoma, Wa. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees .

A journalist, Donovan Hohn tried to track their movements. His research took him from Seattle to Alaska to Hawaii — and then onto China and the Arctic. He wrote a book about his journey: Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them.

https://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134923863/moby-duck-when-28-800-bath-toys-are-lost-at-sea?t=1653400317378

#china society #pokemon #fried chicken #mascot #ducks #friendly floatees #bath toys #Beijing Olympics #fast food #plastic #toy

[latenightagain]

this rubber duck found out in the open ocean in quarantine crystal is inspired by the friendly floatees, a shipment of bath toys lost overboard that are now used to track ocean currents whenever they wash up on a beach. the evo, which appears like a swimmer from below, was intended to parody fakedexes being full of ultra sexy waifumons but i am afraid that somewhere along the way people started taking her seriously lol

#fakemon #pokemon #quarantinedex #quarantine crystal #romhack #qtdex

[rabbitcruiser]

National Rubber Ducky Day

According to Sesame Street’s calendar, January 13 marks the birthday of Rubber Duckie, the bathtub toy of Ernie. The day has since become celebrated as Rubber Ducky Day. Rubber Duckie first appeared on Sesame Street Episode 0078, on February 25, 1970; Ernie was in a bathtub in a room that resembled his living room, and sang the song, “Rubber Duckie.” The most popular version of the song was sung by Ernie in Episode 0136, on November 16, 1970. This time he was in a bathroom with a plain blue background. Jim Henson was the real voice behind the song, and it went to #16 on the Billboard “Hot 100 Singles” chart in 1970 as well. Ernie, either by himself or with other characters, has sung other songs about his rubber duckie such as “Put Down the Duckie,” “D-U-C-K-I-E,” and “Do De Rubber Duck.”

Rubber toys first appeared in the late 1800s, as the rubber industry began to grow. The first rubber ducks were not intended to float, but were instead made to be chew toys. A patent for a “Hollow rubber toy” was filed in 1925 and granted in 1928; it included a picture of a floating duck. Peter Ganine made a sculpture of a duck and then patented it. He filed for his patent in 1947 and received it two years later. Over 50 million of the ducks were sold. By the late 1940s rubber duckies were popular, but Ernie’s “Rubber Duckie” song increased their popularity even more a few decades later.

Nowadays rubber duckies are usually not even made of rubber, but of thick vinyl instead, which is cheaper and more durable. Most are made to squeak and have a bright orange bill. They are sometimes made into characters; some are made to look like they have a profession, or are politicians or celebrities. Some wind up and “swim,” while others glow in the dark, light up, or change color. The largest rubber duck was made by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in 2007. Its dimensions were 54ft x 66ft x 105ft, and it weighed about 1,300 pounds. Besides people making giant rubber ducks, some people also collect them.

Rubber duck races take place to raise money all around the world. When people sponsor a duck, money is donated to an organization. Ducks are dumped into a river or other body of water, and the first duck to cross the finish line wins a prize for its sponsor. Hundreds of rubber duck races are held in the United States and internationally. The largest one in the United States is the Freestore Foodbank Rubber Duck Regatta in Cincinnati, Ohio. The rubber duck was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2013. The Hall of Fame “recognizes toys that have inspired creative play and enjoyed popularity over a sustained period.” New toys are added each year.

On January 10, 1992, close to 29,000 Friendly Floatees from a Chinese factory washed off a ship. Friendly Floatees are bathtub toys, and the ones that fell off the ship consisted of yellow ducks, blue turtles, red beavers, and green frogs. Two thirds of the toys floated south and ended up in Australia, South America, and Indonesia. The other third went up to Alaska and then circled back towards Japan. Many became trapped in Arctic ice in the Bering Strait. They moved through it at the pace of about a mile a day, and made it to the North Atlantic in 2000. Some arrived on the Eastern coast of the United States and Canada around 2003 and 2004, and most of the rest of them arrived in the United Kingdom in 2007.

How to Observe

The best way to celebrate the day is to take a bath with a rubber duck. You should also listen to “Rubber Duckie” and watch Ernie singing the song on Sesame Street. You could also look for rubber duck races to sign up for, and read Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost At Sea.

Source

#National Rubber Ducky Day #NationalRubberDuckieDay #NationalRubberDuckyDay #13 January #Warnemünde #Rostock #Mecklenburg-Vorpommern #Germany #Deutschland #summer 2020 #travel #vacation #giant rubber ducky #original photography #cityscape #national day #roadside attraction #landmark

[earthstory]

Friendly Floatees

There are no firm numbers about how often it happens, but it is believed that every year, thousands or even ten thousand containers are lost from large ships traversing the ocean. The contents of these spills end up contributing to large areas of the sea that are replete with tiny, broken up particles of discarded plastic.

One notable case occurred in 1992. Far to the northwest of Hawaii, a cargo ship lost a container carrying 28,000 Friendly Floatee rubber ducks. Thanks to some ingenuity on the part of Seattle oceanographers Curtis Ebbesmeyer and James Ingraham, these ducks gave an interesting set of insights into our oceans. Those scientists realized that the ducks would keep floating for years and, since they knew roughly where the spill occurred, they could be used to track how waters circulate through the oceans.

The ducks turned up on beaches throughout the Pacific, and during the mid-2000s even made it to the Atlantic Coasts of North America and the UK. The ducks are still mostly in good shape when they’re found, although the color has often been bleached by the sun (some frogs in the same spill have held their color better).

Dr. Ebbesmeyer set up a website to allow people to report finds that might have been from that batch and says he can recognize them from regular photos, so if you ever find a rubber duck on the beach, feel free to check in.

This spill illustrated both how waters from the Pacific circle in a large gyre, turning slowly in a clockwise direction, and how occasionally some of the water escapes and enters another ocean. On the downside though, it also shows how once plastic trash gets into an ocean, it can still be out there decades later, waiting for the wrong passing fish to eat it.

-JBB

Image credit: Alexander Kaiser, pooliestudios.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/poolie/2894748746/

Read more or report a find: http://www.flotsametrics.com/ http://explorerplanet.blogg.no/1365291037_reconstruction_epic_j.html http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/what-can-28000-rubber-duckies-lost-at-sea-teach-us-about

#Friendly Floatees #duck #container #pollution #science #beach #the earth story #flotsam #ocean

[whocaresaboutmyurl]

The french guy with the water beads is like the modern version of the Friendly Floatees accident

#how do i tag this?? #friendly floatees #water beads #french guy #rubber duck

[mind-full-of-darkness]

🐤§ Nel 1992 da Hong Kong salpa un cargo che trasporta merce in America, e qui già c'è storia, economia, eccetera. Ma dopo pochi giorni di traversata sto cargo naufraga e perde tutto il suo carico. Ora il fatto è che il carico sono 28mila paperelle gialle di plastica. E qui uno pensa, sta storia va finir male per le povere papere. E invece no. Perché quelle galleggiano nostante l'oceano, il vento, il mare mosso e tutto il resto e iniziano a viaggiare per giorni, mesi e anni. E così da quell'errore si è capito come si muovono le correnti oceaniche e quindi l'inquinamento. E qui ci puoi buttare in mezzo pure scienze e geografia. Ma, sopratutto, la cosa figa è che queste paperelle che erano state fatte per vivere dentro a una vasca da bagno iniziano a solcare i mari di tutto il mondo senza paura. E così abbiamo scoperto che anche una piccola paperella quando è libera può vivere una grande vita. E per me questa è poesia Cate, forse pure filosofia. §🐤

Piuma

#Movies #Film #Piuma #Cate #Frasi #Vita #Filosofia #Papere #Gialle #Giallo #Paperelle gialle #Paperella #Friendly Floatees #Ducks #Quotes #quoteaday #Tumblr #Scene #Amore #Libertà #Oceano #Ocean

[prettybirdy979]

March Flash Fic: "I told you I took care of X, but I didn't, and now I need your help" (GO: Aziraphale/Crowley)

Prompt is from the Ace Omens Discord where a flash fic prompt is being given every weekday for the month of March. But do feel free to send me any prompts. More of my fics here

For context

‘A.Z.Fells & Co, thank you for calling. I am sorry to say we are close-’

‘Angel, it’s me.’

‘Crowley!’

‘Isn’t it midday there? Why are you closed?’

‘Oh the customers have been awful today! Three of them! In two hours! No, I had to close to preserve the safety of my books.’

‘Of course you did.’

‘And what did you mean ‘there’? I thought you were finished with the business in New York and back in London.’

‘Firstly it’s snowing so you are a monster for sending me here-’

‘You lost the coin toss.’

‘-secondly I… may have a problem. That you could. You know. Assist with. Maybe.’

‘Crowley…’

‘You know that ship I was meant to bless for you? The one in Hong Kong?’

‘Crowley!’

‘Yes well. I told you I took care of it, but I didn’t, and now I need your help.’

‘Just go do it… oh no. It’s sailed, right?’

‘Yeah, a while ago. But ah… ah, it lost cargo overnight. Quite a few containers, including one with a whole lot of kids toys, those Friendly Floatees. Gonna be ah. Bad.’

‘And why didn’t you do it?’

‘......’

‘CROWLEY!’

‘There was that auction. For ah. Books. You know. Wanted to spread discord there.’

‘Oh. The one you got me those three first edition Wilde’s from.’

‘Yeah.’

‘Right. I’ll meet you in Washington, we’ll figure this out together.’

‘Thanks angel.’

‘You owe me.’

‘Of course I do.’

#good omens #ineffable husbands #My Scribbles #My Story #technically april here #but i've this and another post to post for march #so we'll pretend it's march a little longer

[mumblingsage]

Twitter’s discussion on relatively harmless maritime disasters alerted me to the Friendly Floatees incident of 1992 (well, starting in 1992), documented in a book with the immortal title Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them.

Anyway that happened with an Evergreen ship to. This company is God’s divinely ordained oceanic jester. 

#fools INCLUDING THE AUTHOR #'predicted further landfalls of the toys' #god every phrase of this Wikipedia article is golden

[autolesionistra]

L’altro giorno leggevo la curiosa storia di una spiaggia del Finistère dove approdano saltuariamente dei telefoni di Garfield rilasciati da un container affondato nel 1983:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/garfield-phone-mystery-solved-in-brittany-35-years-later

Da lì sono finito in un tunnel di Giuocattoli Alla Deriva™ che ci porta ai Friendly Floatees:

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees

Riassumo le intriganti premesse: 

nel 1992 si rovescia nel Pacifico un container con più di 28.000 giocattoli galleggianti (castori rossi, rane verdi, tartarughe blu e papere gialle)

due oceanografi decidono di analizzarne la deriva per studiare le correnti oceaniche

il resto è una storia di brividi, fama e tante paperette di gomma

[whispsofwind]

I've tried to reblog the post about Crowley adopting the Hotel Rubber Ducks five times and tumblr won't let me

But I need you all to hear my newest headcanon, which is:

Crowley is responsible for the Friendly Floatees incident in 1992

Look at them they have LITTLE SUNGLASSES ON

(I am 90% sure those aren't the real Floatees but it was too cute a coincidence to pass on)

#good omens #ducks!

[onaperduamedee]

Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery Rating: Teen Word count: 4320 Relationships: Michael Burnham/Philippa Georgiou

Summary:

Philippa Georgiou sets a star, but the Shenzhou doesn’t find them in the storm.

Many are watching over Michael and Philippa, even if they remain unreachable.

#Milippa #Star Trek Discovery #Star trek #Michael Burnham #Philippa Georgiou #Sand and Water #itching paper #I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night #a little levity! #I warned you this was going to be just a long gay trek

[rabbitcruiser]

National Rubber Ducky Day

According to Sesame Street’s calendar, January 13 marks the birthday of Rubber Duckie, the bathtub toy of Ernie. The day has since become celebrated as Rubber Ducky Day. Rubber Duckie first appeared on Sesame Street Episode 0078, on February 25, 1970; Ernie was in a bathtub in a room that resembled his living room, and sang the song, “Rubber Duckie.” The most popular version of the song was sung by Ernie in Episode 0136, on November 16, 1970. This time he was in a bathroom with a plain blue background. Jim Henson was the real voice behind the song, and it went to #16 on the Billboard “Hot 100 Singles” chart in 1970 as well. Ernie, either by himself or with other characters, has sung other songs about his rubber duckie such as “Put Down the Duckie,” “D-U-C-K-I-E,” and “Do De Rubber Duck.”

Rubber toys first appeared in the late 1800s, as the rubber industry began to grow. The first rubber ducks were not intended to float, but were instead made to be chew toys. A patent for a “Hollow rubber toy” was filed in 1925 and granted in 1928; it included a picture of a floating duck. Peter Ganine made a sculpture of a duck and then patented it. He filed for his patent in 1947 and received it two years later. Over 50 million of the ducks were sold. By the late 1940s rubber duckies were popular, but Ernie’s “Rubber Duckie” song increased their popularity even more a few decades later.

Nowadays rubber duckies are usually not even made of rubber, but of thick vinyl instead, which is cheaper and more durable. Most are made to squeak and have a bright orange bill. They are sometimes made into characters; some are made to look like they have a profession, or are politicians or celebrities. Some wind up and “swim,” while others glow in the dark, light up, or change color. The largest rubber duck was made by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in 2007. Its dimensions were 54ft x 66ft x 105ft, and it weighed about 1,300 pounds. Besides people making giant rubber ducks, some people also collect them.

Rubber duck races take place to raise money all around the world. When people sponsor a duck, money is donated to an organization. Ducks are dumped into a river or other body of water, and the first duck to cross the finish line wins a prize for its sponsor. Hundreds of rubber duck races are held in the United States and internationally. The largest one in the United States is the Freestore Foodbank Rubber Duck Regatta in Cincinnati, Ohio. The rubber duck was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2013. The Hall of Fame “recognizes toys that have inspired creative play and enjoyed popularity over a sustained period.” New toys are added each year.

On January 10, 1992, close to 29,000 Friendly Floatees from a Chinese factory washed off a ship. Friendly Floatees are bathtub toys, and the ones that fell off the ship consisted of yellow ducks, blue turtles, red beavers, and green frogs. Two thirds of the toys floated south and ended up in Australia, South America, and Indonesia. The other third went up to Alaska and then circled back towards Japan. Many became trapped in Arctic ice in the Bering Strait. They moved through it at the pace of about a mile a day, and made it to the North Atlantic in 2000. Some arrived on the Eastern coast of the United States and Canada around 2003 and 2004, and most of the rest of them arrived in the United Kingdom in 2007.

How to Observe

The best way to celebrate the day is to take a bath with a rubber duck. You should also listen to “Rubber Duckie” and watch Ernie singing the song on Sesame Street. You could also look for rubber duck races to sign up for, and read Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost At Sea.

Source

#National Rubber Ducky Day #NationalRubberDuckieDay #NationalRubberDuckyDay #13 January #Warnemünde #Rostock #Mecklenburg-Vorpommern #Germany #Deutschland #summer 2020 #travel #vacation #giant rubber ducky #original photography #cityscape #national day #roadside attraction

[skivampire]

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

28,800 Floating Bath Toys Topple into Ocean (1992)

Children's bath toys may seem an unlikely source of oceanographic data, but that is just what they have been since 1992, when a shipment of Friendly Floatees from China went rogue while en route to Tacoma, Washington. It was began when 12 shipping containers went overboard during a storm in the Pacific. One broke open, releasing 28,800 toy ducks, beavers, frogs, and turtles into the water.

#this day in history #january

[watchilove]

A large conveyor belt runs across the ocean: it takes a drop of water a thousand years to return to the same place. (NOAA) Every year, nine million metric tons of plastic are dumped into the sea. (Science) 350 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year. (UN) 640,000 metric tons of fishing nets are lost or abandoned every year. (UN) Abandoned nets kill nearly 100,000 whales, dolphins, sea lions, seals and turtles per year. (World Animal Protection) Turtles confuse plastic bags with jellyfish and ingest them. (Indicit) 80% of seabirds ingest plastic. (PNAS) Microplastic is found on mountain tops, proving that the material has entered the cycle of the elements: nanoparticles evaporate in clouds and it snows plastic. (Nature Geoscience) 2/3 of the plastic discharged into the ocean since the 1950s has washed up on the shores; 1/3 has degraded into microplastic. (Scientific Reports) Microplastics account for 90% of the 5 trillion pieces of plastic floating on the surface of the ocean. (Tara Océan) A shipment of 29,000 plastic ducks lost in the Pacific in 1992 was usefully tracked by oceanographers for 25 years. (The Friendly Floatees) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHIDXoPLWbf/?igshid=1lb24ursn9djv

[georgesmithyear2motiongraphics]

Plastic Infographic Project: Storyboards

13.02.19

I wanted to do some rough storyboards so that I can plan out what I need to do in terms of making assets and animating. I actually made these first two pages a week ago, but unfortunately, I accidentally deleted the post where I talked about them... It’s alright, I’ll just talk about them briefly here, since I’ve made better ones since (last three pages in this post).

First of all, the scene will start with the cargo ship; ‘Ever Laurel’ sailing the seas. Then “January 1992″ will fade onto the screen (maybe) and fade back out. Next, the screen will darken and the waves will get rough—a thunderstorm. A bolt of lightning will shock the boat causing it to tilt and then a crate will slide off into the water, with a splash effect. Next will cut to the ducks where they will be showcased from the side, the bottom, and the back, this is all to show that they have no apertures (holes) so they cannot let water in, so they just float endlessly. Then, a map of the world with points where the ducks have shown up. At this point I was considering doing this, and I wanted to have a point coming from Hong Kong (where the ducks came from) and a line that moves to each country using trim paths. I was planning on using an actual map for this, as making a 100% accurate map myself would take way too long. Next will cut to the ducks again where they will be showcased surviving many different hardships, like being shocked by lightning, being under blistering heat, and being frozen for years and thawing out. The next panel shows what I decided to do after scrapping the idea about the map—I thought I would just have Hong Kong, and then a line using trim paths move toward Japan, UK, US, and Australia, and when the line hits, a little speech bubble pops up with the flag of the respective country. 

On the last few panels on the last page, I decided I wanted to give Curtis Ebbesmeyer some spotlight, and had a back shot of his while a duck was pointing to a chalkboard. This was to try and convey how the ducks taught oceanographers a lot about how currents in the ocean work. The next panel shows both the duck and Curtis from the side, as I planned on having them kind of rotate around the screen, to ultimately end with a shot of Curtis. It’s kind of ambitious as an idea, but then again, as are some of the things I’ve drawn in the newer storyboard.

So, below is the new storyboard set. It’s more fleshed out at parts and more detailed. The scene starts with the cargo ship, ‘Ever Laurel’, exactly the same as how I did it in the original, but the boat drawing is much more detailed and actually looks like a cargo ship. It’s actually based off of the real Ever Laurel cargo ship too, which I think is a nice reference. There’re some clouds above, which I’ll have moving. I’ll make it so that there are two or more layers of clouds, some in the background, which will move slow, and then some closer to the screen, which will move faster. The waves I plan on making move up and down, on three layers: one in the foreground, which will go over the top of the boat, then the other two layers, which will be behind the boat. Essentially, they will act as puppet’s mouths, though I won’t be using the puppet tool in After Effects... The music will most likely be upbeat and happy, as there is nothing going wrong right now, although perhaps I could make it slightly eerie, to foreshadow the next scene. 

Speaking of, the next scene arrives, and the boat is shown tipped (it definitely won’t be this tipped in the final animation, as I drew it way too exaggerated). The cargo is flying off the boat into the ocean because of a thunderbolt from the sky—it’s a storm. The sky will be dark colours, maybe just shades of grey (not 50, of course), and the lightning will be a bright white. The waves will be chaotic and moving up and down really fast, like a really fast ventriloquist, moving his puppet’s mouth. The wave returns with a vengeance and will be creating a huge splash once the crate hits the water. I will most likely be using the opacity effects to do this. It will also be a more zoomed-in shot of the boat to showcase the effects and stuff that I want to do. The music should definitely be much more chaotic and treacherous compared to the first scene. I don’t exactly know tracks I’ll be using yet, probably more video game soundtracks, since they often work very well. I thought about having a single aggressive piano note play as soon as this scene starts that kind of transitions the two scenes. 

The next scene may be my favourite so far, and it involves the ducks. I talked about them in the original storyboards, but essentially, my idea is to have about 5 models of a duck—one from the side, the first one, one that is facing forward with its back to the screen, the middle one, and then a last one that is showing its undercarriage to the screen. In the middles of these three models that I’ll be making in Illustrator, there will be in-between frames if you will, that will be transitioning into the next model, so for example, the first in-between frame will show the duck moving from facing sideways to facing backwards. Then the last in-between will be of the duck... at a kind of awkward angle—I can’t quite get it to look right, but you can kind of work out what I was going for. This is all to show that there’s no apertures in the ducks, so they cannot let water in, therefore, they will not sink. The final animation will hopefully look like some kind of turntable kind of thing. It will be difficult to pull off I’m sure but will be very rewarding if I succeed. I actually have an idea of what kind of music I want for this scene—some kind of elevator-type music, and I have an idea of an exact  theme I could use. 

The next page continues on with the ducks—this time they’re surviving through harsh weather conditions, like being shocked by lightning, which I know is incredibly improbable, but whatever, it’s supposed to be a fun animation. The next duck will be shown under blistering heat, with the sun in the background. The duck will have some sweat drops on it, or maybe melting drops, but maybe that will contradict my statement about them being immortal. The final duck will be shown frozen in ice, (for many years. Perhaps I will have a timer or something that’s going really fast to symbolise that it’s trapped for a long time). Then it will ultimately thaw out, I’m not sure how I would go about this, maybe I would have shards of ice flying off the duck once it thaws out. These scenes won’t be too detailed, perhaps no detail at all in the backgrounds, since I want the focus to be just on the ducks. Not sure what I want for the music yet, possibly the same as the scene before, and I can just have it carry on from it, since there isn’t really a big shift in atmosphere. 

The last scene is kind of a new one. I drew Alaska very roughly, since this is the first place any of the ducks ended up (Sitka, precisely). I will maybe have some text to accompany this, saying that the first of the ducks appeared here, as I don’t want to reveal my trim paths strategy, that I’ll be using much more effectively in the following scene. Speaking of, for this next scene, I will have single countries of where the ducks ended up. These are: UK, USA, Japan, and Australia, of course, that’s not every country they’ve visited, but I just chose some of the more prominent ones. I will also include China complete with Hong Kong which is where the point will start. There will be lines coming from this point and ending at certain points located on the other countries (in no particular place). To do this I will use trim paths as I mentioned. Once the line reaches the point, there will be a little speech bubble popping up containing the respective flag. Also, I know that these countries are horribly drawn, I plan on using existing vectors if I can find any so to make sure I am 100% factually correct. It is an infographic after all. Not too sure what music I will have playing here, but probably something neutral. 

Finally, the last page. These panels are virtually the same as the original storyboard, but this time, the chalkboard at the beginning will have drawings of currents, showing that the ducks taught oceanographers about how currents work in the ocean. Curtis himself will probably be a challenge to create in Illustrator, as even these rough sketches don’t really look anything like him, but I will try my best. 

That is everything that I’ve done in terms of storyboarding. I hope to stick to these as closely as I can, but may stray away from certain ideas if I come up with anything better, which I will detail.

Some websites that I used to help with determine where certain scenes fit:

Seanmungercom. 2015. SeanMungercom. [Online]. [13 February 2019]. Available from: https://seanmunger.com/2015/03/27/flotsam-and-jetsam-part-iii-the-amazing-odyssey-of-the-friendly-floatees/

Staywildswimcom. 2019. Staywildswimcom. [Online]. [13 February 2019]. Available from: https://staywildswim.com/the-blog-1/friendly-floatees