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A 13-year-old boy has found a particularly rare Lego piece on the beach of Marazion. It concerns an octopus, of which more than 4,000 ended up in the sea 27 years ago.
Nearly five million Lego pieces ended up in the water in 1997 when a high wave pushed 62 containers off the freighter Tokyo Express. These pieces regularly wash up on nearby beaches. And so it happened that over the past two years, thirteen-year-old Liutauras Cemolonskas has found almost eight hundred pieces on the beach of Marazion, a town in the English county of Cornwall.
On that same beach he has now actually found a Lego octopus, of which 4,200 were on board the ship when the cargo ended up in the sea. “It’s not easy to find,” father Vitautas told the PA news agency. “We didn’t expect to find one, they are really rare. We have been looking for this for two years.” The teenager himself says he is “very happy” with his find.
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Father and son’s next goal is to find one of the 33,941 dragons that ended up in the water in 1997. Tracey Williams of the Lego Lost At Sea project encourages the two’s efforts. “There’s something magical about those octopuses,” she says. “I found one in 1997 and it took 17 years after that. I think people like to find Lego on the beach because they also clean the beach with it.”
