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A floating flock of rubber ducks is expected to wash ashore in New England.

The ducks, their yellow coats now bleached white, are stamped with the brand "The First Years."

The toys tumbled into the ocean when a container ship en route from China to Seattle lost 20 containers in a storm in the Pacific Ocean in January, 1992.

From there, oceanographers say the 29-thousand toys floated along the Alaska coast, reaching the Bering Strait by 1995 and Iceland five years later. By 2001 they had ridden currents to near where the Titanic sank.

Some kept going -- others headed off to Europe. Ocean experts says hundreds could soon be popping up on New England beaches.

From the Eyewitness News Cutting Room Floor.