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Flotsametrics and the floating world: How one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science
Ebbesmeyer, C.; Sicgliano, E. (2009). Flotsametrics and the floating world: How one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science. HarperCollins: New York. ISBN 978-0-06-155841-2. 286 pp.
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Cadée, G.C. (2009). Boekbespreking: Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Eric Scigliana, 2009. Flotsametrics and the floating world. HarperCollins, New York. ISBN 978-0-06-155841-2. 286 pp. Het Zeepaard 69(4): 140-142, more

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Keywords
    Debris
    Flotsam
    Motion > Water motion > Water currents > Ocean currents
    Wastes > Solid impurities > Litter
    Marine/Coastal

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  • Ebbesmeyer, C.
  • Sicgliano, E.

Abstract
    A pioneering oceanographer's assessment of the role of flotsam on world history describes how his volunteer team's efforts to track the ocean's currents revealed surprising discoveries about such subjects as the discovery of America, Japanese trade, and the origins of life; in an account that also makes observations about current environmental threats.

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