From an artcile at The Register

An army of rubber ducks is apparently about to invade the British islands after being at sea for more than a decade.

They went overboard when a container ship went into stormy weather about 15 years ago, sending 30 thousand of the plastic bathtime companions to do what they can do best: swimming. After quite some journey, including some time frozen into arctic ice, some of the suriviors have made landfall in the eastern U.S. and are expected to arrive in masses at the British beaches.

“The luckless fleet of cursed, wandering sea-going toys - Flying Duckmen, perhaps - circled the northern Pacific for some years before a fresh horror befell them as they drifted into the Arctic. Here they became frozen into the pack ice, suffering untold torment in their icy prison as they slowly transited past Greenland into the Atlantic.”

Amazing.