'Millions' of Lego pieces at the bottom of the sea off the English coast.
There are still millions of pieces of Lego at the bottom of the sea off the English coast.
That's according to author Tracey Williams, who has been tracking them since a container fell into the water off Cornwall in February 1997 while making its way from the Netherlands to New York. 62 shipping containers were lost overboard when the ship was hit by a giant wave, one of which contained nearly five million pieces of Lego.Some of the lost Lego pieces that have washed up on beaches. Picture by: Tracey Williams"There were 4,200 octopuses... there were tiny pirates cutlasses, there were bits of Lego seagrass, spearguns, little life jackets, life rafts and scuba tanks," she said.Some of the lost Lego pieces that have washed up on beaches.
"Most of it sank to the seabed, and what's interesting is that the fishermen are still finding that 26 years on."It's gradually being swept by ocean floor currents along the seabed, and washing up miles from where it went overboard".Ms Williams said it's believed what has been recovered is only a small fraction of what was lost."There were 100 different items in the shipping container, and beachcombers tend to find the same 12 or 13 items all the time.
Main image: Some of the lost Lego pieces that have washed up on beaches. Picture by: Facebook/Lego Lost At Sea
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