13-year-old Liutauras has found a rare piece of Lego on a beach in Cornwall, England, that ended up in the sea years ago. The British child spent no less than two years looking for the plastic octopus, which is seen as the holy grail among beachcombers.
The piece of Lego was part of a container – containing as many as five million pieces – that flew overboard from a cargo ship in 1997. After two years of searching, Liutauras finally found the plastic octopus on the beach of Marazion on the English coast. The piece was one of many Lego pieces lost from the freighter Tokyo Express at Land’s End in 1997, when a ferocious wave swept 62 containers into the sea. There were approximately 4,200 Lego octopuses on board the ship at the time.
The teenager, who regularly visits the beach with his parents, said he was happy with the discovery. Liutauras has collected almost eight hundred Lego blocks from 1997. His father, Vytautas, noticed that an octopus was not easy to find. Among the other lost pieces were 352,000 pairs of fins, 97,500 diving tanks and 92,400 swords. Liutauras now has his sights set on finding one of the 33,941 dragons lost since the incident.
Holy Grail
Beachcomber Tracey Williams is part of the Lego Lost At Sea project, which has been working for years to find the plastic pieces since they ended up in the ocean. She often considers the octopus the ‘holy grail’ of all finds and says she found one in 1997, but only found one again after eighteen years. “There is something magical about octopuses,” she concludes.
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