The Devon fisherman's find came from a container lost from a cargo ship 27 years ago.
Richard West was told the Lego shark he found was the first recovered from the lost shipping container
Richard West, a 35-year-old fisherman living in Plymouth, found the plastic toy on the top of his fishing nets 20 miles south of Penzance on Tuesday. A freak wave in a severe gale swept 62 shipping containers into the sea 20 miles off Land's End, one of which held 4,756,940 pieces of Lego, much of it sea-themed.Mr West was trawling on board the Defiant FY848, which sails between Plymouth, Brixham and Newlyn, for monkfish, sole and doreys, when he landed his unique catch.
She told him the official Lego inventory showed that 22,200 dark grey Lego sharks and 29,600 light grey ones were in the lost container.The founder of the Lego Lost at Sea project said a total of 51,800 Lego sharks were known to be in the container swept overboard the Tokio Express
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