Five million Lego pieces were lost during an infamous storm in 1997, with only 4,200 octopus pieces among them - nearly three decades on, a boy's hunt for one has finally paid off.
A rare Lego piece that fell into the sea in 1997 has been found by a 13-year-old boy in Cornwall. Liutauras Cemolonskas had been hoping to find a 'holy grail' plastic octopus for two years in his hunt for pieces of Lego that famously fell into the sea in 1997 when a cargo ship encountered a storm. Among the Lego pieces that fell into the sea were 352,000 pairs of flippers, 97,500 scuba tanks, and 92,400 swords - but octopuses are the most prized objects as only 4,200 were onboard.
' Read more:Lego halts commercial operations in Russia indefinitelyWhat Lego tells us about the immense difficulties of going green In what Ms Williams calls a 'quite exciting' development, a second Lego octopus was found just two days after Liutauras's discovery, this time in Porthleven.
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