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This example was collected from the Snopes inbox in March 2015: Origins: On 22 March 2015, the Facebook group AsapSCIENCE posted a photograph which they described as showing the friendly floatees, a group of rubber ducks that have been floating in the ocean since being lost at sea in 1992: The posted photograph is authentic, and the caption accompanying it does describe a real event, but the two don't match: the rubber ducks shown in the image are not the infamous Pacific Ocean friendly floatees. The above-displayed picture was taken by photographer Cassie Marshall at the Ken-Ducky Derby, an annual rubber duck race held in Louisville, Kentucky: Although Marhsall's photo did not capture a group of rubber ducks lost at sea, the gist of the caption used by AsapScience is true. In 1992, a shipping crate carrying more than 25,000 bath toys (including ducks, beavers, blue turtles and green frogs) spilled into the Pacific Ocean, creating a group of Friendly Floatees that have inspired children's books, Disney movies, and helped oceanographers locate the North Pacific Gyre:
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