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Woman has been searching for 5 million Lego pieces in the sea for 25 years
It has been 25 years that the British Tracey Williams has spent searching for almost five million Lego pieces submerged in the sea.
It would have started as a hobby with her family on the beaches near her home in the county of Devon, England.
But then it became a life project in which Williams began to document on her social networks, and later began her book that began to be sold this February.
Entitled “Adrift: The Curious Story of the Lego Lost at Sea”, the book tells in detail the search for the little Lego pieces.
It all started on February 13, 1997 when the ship Tokio Express, whose departure point was Rotterdam, was hit by a large wave in the southwest of England.
The strong waves caused 62 containers to fall overboard, one of which had 4,759,940 Lego pieces inside.
From that moment, the plastic pieces began to reach the shores of the English beaches.
Williams said that since the event, when her children were young, it had become a hobby to look for the game pieces every time they went to the beach near her home on the Devon coast.
In the container that fell into the sea with Lego pieces there were more than 50,000 sharks and 33,941 figures of black and green dragons, which became the most valuable pieces for local children, who even sold each piece for ten cents.
There were also pieces in the shape of vests, diving tanks, life preservers, octopuses, fins, seaweed, small fishing harpoons and some lifeboats.
To this day, the game pieces continue to appear on the English shores, it is even known that they have come to appear on the shores of Ireland, where in early 2021 they got a small dragon. The pieces would also have reached the coasts of France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
The authorities, to this day, have not been able to determine how far the Lego pieces could have traveled by sea.
In 2013 a small black Lego octopus was found on the US island of Galveston, Texas. They would also have found swords and diving fins on an Australian beach. It is believed that they may belong to the Tokyo Express container that fell into the sea in 1997.
