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What the Garfield telephones and mysterious metal spheres washing up on beaches reveal about our oceans [1]
['David Pescovitz']
Date: 2023-02-24
The mysterious metal sphere that washed up on a Japanese beach has been removed. But this is far from the only odd object that's turned up on beaches. It doesn't look entirely dissimilar to the weird ball found on a London beach in 2019 that turned out to be an oversized model of a Christmas tree ornament. And of course, there are the "Friendly Floatees," the tens of thousands of plastic ducks, frogs, and other figures that fell off a ship in 1992. The BBC News surveys the strange objects that wash up on beaches and what they can tell scientists about ocean currents:
A decade ago, oceanographers used this data to build this interactive map, which reveals just how far floating debris can travel. Click on a point in the ocean, and the map will tell you where an item will end up after days, weeks and months. For example, an item dropped off the coast of Japan could reach the coast of California after about three years.
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