Floating Bucket of Death was a ship in 1988. It weighed 18,500 tons. It was mentioned in the USA Snapshots infographic on the front page of the October 22, 2015 issue of USA Today, the subject of which was "Ships sunk by whales since 1979" by Tom Miller, as having been sunk in this way around Bad Ganja Key in March, 1988. Miller's source was the publication Singh's Book of Sunken Ships, which was given a credit below the box-out.