Writer, beachcomber, all at sea. Founder of the award-winning Lego Lost At Sea project. Current Archaeology Rescue Project of the Year. Author of Adrift, The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost At Sea. Cornwall. MD ANT.
Lego Lost At Sea
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Some 28,700 of these Lego life rafts tumbled overboard from the cargo ship Tokio Express on 13th February 1997. In all, nearly five million bits of Lego were lost to the sea that fateful day.
Lego Lost At Sea
On top of St Michael’s Mount stands a magnificent fortress used as the location for High Tide castle on the island of Driftmark in – appropriately enough - House of the Dragon, the follow-up to Game of Thrones. Many thanks to Liutauras for giving us permission to share his video.
On Coral Beach, Cheung Chau island, 10km southwest of Hong Kong, a single Lego flower among thousands of bits of plastic strewn across the shore. Could it be from the spill?
It's impossible to tell and may well just be a random loss, but some oceanographers do believe that Lego from the Tokio Express could have drifted all the way found the globe by now. #LegoInTheWild
