Current duck

The current duck is a friendly floaty duck who helps the player with charting currents at sea. The ability to chart currents is unlocked upon completion of Current Affairs, which requires a Sailing level of 22.

The current duck follows currents until reaching a predetermined end point indicated with message Your current duck comes to a stop.. It will despawn two minutes after it comes to a stop. The current duck will reappear in the tools compartment of the cargo hold on a player's boat once it is placed in the water, however it will not be retrievable from there until the current one despawns or is picked up. The current duck cannot be placed in a menagerie.

Telekinetic grab does not work on the current duck.

• The current duck's appearance is based on that of the bufflehead, a species of sea duck native to North America.
• The current duck is a reference to the Friendly Floatees spill where a variety of plastic bath toys, including ducks, washed into the Pacific Ocean and were used to study ocean current.
• The triple meaning of current is referenced in the examine text of the lightning rod charting object: "Current ducks become past ducks when measuring this type of current."

v t e Sea charting
Tools	Captain's log Spyglass Current duck Crowbar Fishbowl helmet Diving apparatus Portable weather station data filled
NPCs	Meaty Aura Logist Victoria Kebbit-Monkfish Marina Kebbit-Monkfish Selina Kebbit-Monkfish Gloria Kebbit-Monkfish Christina Kebbit-Monkfish
Scenery	Sealed crate Advert Atoll cape flag Bananaless boat Barracuda grade rope Barrel of halberd poles Bird nest Boat shaped ice Box of outfits Broken crane Charred remains of a table Charts in a bottle Chest of equipment Collapsed crab hole Corpse Crab apple tree Crab monument Crashed glider Crystal dinghy Dead magical plant Dictionary Discarded plough Diseased coral Dragon activity marker Dragon scales Elven river mine Empty rowboat Enormous skeleton Floating brooms Floating eggs Floating sled Gnome the ball Golem corpse Horde of tiny sea creatures Jellyfish Kraken slime Lightning rod Lurking Shadow Magical wards Map in a bottle Megashrimp droppings Mid Feldip Ridge Notice from General Khazard Old camp Ominous sea light Partial ship Periscope Poison spill Polite notice Port roberts jail visitors book Prop shipwreck Rapids? Rock of Colbansea Row boat Sabotaged mooring point Safe kebbit burrow Sand pit Seagull Nest Sharhai's purse Shark corpse Shifter corpse Ship in a bottle Sign Spiny kraken corpse Stone tablet Suspicious eyes Tangle of fishing nets The Minor Conch Thorns Tiny briny shrimp Toad spawn Treacherous rock Treasure chest Tree roots Waterlogged book Wrecks Barracuda ship Balanced Ballast Counterweight Desert Trout Fearless Fremennik Floaty Boaty Grandyozenaym Last Song Lunar Longship Pandemonium II Pandemonium III Salty Grouper Shelled Snail Soul Searcher
Bottles	Alco-sol Almost smuggled rum Alone at sea Banana daiquiri Banker's draught Barracuda brew Black lobster ale Captain cat's black rum Captain clop's mango gin Creator's cocktail Crocodile tears Crystal clear vodka Crystal clear water Delicate elven wine Destructor's cocktail Dognose draught Dwarvern wizard's stout bomb Elidinis's life water Exile's welcome Fish bladder stoutier Fishier bladderier stout Fishtongue tonic Get to the point punch Goldless asgoldian ale Graveyard corpse reviver Headless unicornman's heady beer Impling surprise Kgp standard issue martini Kharazi cooler Light in the dark Lunarshine Monkfish bladder stout Mystery fruit cider Myths mighty mixer Ogre prayer potion Ol' random's reddest rum Oo'glug Platinum rum Portal nexus perry Possible albumen Potterington's marrow wine Puzzlers poteen Robert's port Sea shandy 2 Sea spray Self-congratulation wine Slippery snake skins in possibly gravy Slug's mind balm Sorodamin's bru Soul Soul juice Spinner's last gasp Spinning comp-kvass Suqah-free cola Tangled toad's legs cider The endless night The way home Underground passteurised milk Waterbirth blue lagoon Weiss meltwater Wild wood whisky Winter sun Zogre's sloppy kisses Zul-rye beer Items Daddy's special water's special water The melted rocks Chuck up's 'stew' Mystery fruit Rare black lobster NPCs A corpse Angry tortugan Banana Blue dagannoth Chinchompa chum Chuck up Daddy's special water Dinky the drink troll Drink troll queen Drink troll Drunken Dwarf Mystery fruit Racoon buddy Sailing cat Snakeling Squirrel friend The rocks
Rewards	Kraken ink stout Perildance bitter Trawler's trust Horizon's lure

v t e Current Affairs
NPCs	Arhein Duck Councillor Catherine Harry
Items	Form cr-4p Form 7r4-5h Mayoral fishbowl Mayor of Catherby Current duck
Scenery	Desk Cabinet
Related	Transcript