Some say that cruise ducks trace their quacky past to 2018, when 10-year-old Abby Davis and her father took a Carnival Cruise and thought it would be fun to bring 50 rubber ducks with them to hide ...

Disney Cruise Line discouraged customers from participating in duck hunts, and crew members were removing the ducks as they found them, according to a December post on Plan Disney, an official ...

Most cruise lines don't officially embrace duck hiding and just look the other way, but Carnival tacitly accepted it in November by adopting a duck-hiding-related on-board character.

Cruise ducks, or cruising ducks, have become a phenomenon on ships in the past few years. We spoke with the man who started it and launched the Facebook group.