15/03/2026
Heading to again on holiday later this year. Hopefully this will be the year I find some Lost at Sea 🙂🫣 Here's a reminder of the story:
13th February 2026 marks the 29th anniversary of the Great Lego Spill, when nearly five million pieces of Lego fell into the ocean after a cargo ship laden with goods was hit by a storm.
The Tokio Express was on its way from Rotterdam in the Netherlands to North America on 13th February 1997 when it became engulfed in mountainous seas 20 miles off Land’s End, Cornwall and sixty-two shipping containers toppled into the ocean. One held 4,756,940 pieces of Lego, much of it sea-themed.
The Lego is still being found today, highlighting the lingering legacy of a cargo spill and revealing how long plastic persists in the sea and sand.
The image below shows some of the pieces you might find.
