A shipment of nearly 29,000 floating toys was lost at sea in 1992.The cargo included rubber duckies, beavers and turtles.
While typically it takes water six years to travel completely around the North Pacific, it took the ducks only three with the aid of strong winds.
They were half way between China and Seattle when a violent storm lodged 20 containers of rubber duckies into the ocean.
The toys were said to have been frozen in the artic, which has caused the once yellow hue of the plastic to turned white.
Each toy animal could be worth as much as $100 in savings bonds.
Oceanographers have been tracking the path the toys would follow and have determined the toys will reach the United State's eastern shore.
Some toys have shown up in Hawaii, Vancouver Island, and on the Vancouver Islands of Canada.
Oceanographers Curtis Ebbesmeyer and James Ingraham have been tracking the ducks for the past 11 years. Ingraham has been working on a Surface Current Simulator that has accurately predicted landings on the Alaskan coast and in Washington state.
Some are worried the ducks have broken down into small non-biodegradable fragments adding to the pollution in the ocean.
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