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“Moby-Duck”: When 28,800 Bath Toys Are Lost At Sea. (PAU June 2019)

In the following conversation you are going to hear some new words. Read and listen to them. Make sure you know what they mean.
to end up / deck / to stack / to maneuver

After the listening exercise you can check your mistakes reading  the script

'Moby-Duck': When 28,800 Bath Toys Are Lost At Sea ( PAU June 2019)

This is FRESH AIR, our weekly program devoted to the environment. What happens when 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys are accidentally dumped in the ocean? Where do the ocean
currents take them, and what environmental impact do the ducks and other ocean junk have on the seas? That’s what our guest, the journalist Donovan Hahn, investigated in his book “MobyDuck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them”.

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