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Lego Lost At Sea

@legolostatsea.bsky.social
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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.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 10h
Among the old plastic washing up from the seabed this week was this fragment - does anyone know what these letters might once have said? Google lens suggests bar of soap (definitely not), bread tag, masonic token, belt dressing (?). We wondered if it might be some sort of badge or nameplate?
Square fragment of ivory coloured plastic with the embossed words YOUR BE(?) NEED
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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Goths. Definitely Goths.
Fourth photo in quoted post of damaged paperback with curled pages of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT now being turned by a skeletal hand.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fragments of people's lives, washed up on the beach.
Miscellaneous beach finds laid out on a black background. Among the colourful finds featured are false nails, finger prickers, toy soldiers, toy animals, fake flowers and foliage, a plastic nose, Lego, a soy sauce fish and a covid test kit.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
RIP, Beryl e-scooter. We wondered how long it would be till we found one at the foot of a cliff. Not sure how long it's been there but we reported it to #BerylBikes
Beryl e-scooter lying among pebbles and seaweed at base of cliff
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sad to hear that Holywell Cave in Cornwall, known too as St Cuthbert’s Cave, has apparently been ‘sealed forever’ after a massive cliff fall.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Beach finds.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Torn and tattered books strewn all along the grass verge on our way to the beach this morning. What's the story...
Remains of a book lying on grass vergeRemains of a book lying on grass vergeRemains of a book lying on grass vergeRemains of a book lying on grass verge
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Lost and found. #PawPatrol #beachfind
Plastic toy dog on a rock - sand, sea and sky in the background
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dramatic skies this morning after months of drought. Wonderful to see.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A message from the sea...
Scrap of soggy, torn, faded paper lying among brown seaweed bearing the message "You are awesome! Thank you for making a difference"
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sea grapes or cuttlefish eggs washed up today. We returned them to the water.
Cluster of cuttlefish eggs resembling black grapes lying on a rock encrusted with barnacles, green seaweed in the background
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Another magnificent barrel jellyfish washed up this morning. Gentle giants of the sea. #Rhizostomapulmo
Large barrel jellyfish, blue in colour, washed up on the shore. Ebbing tide beyond, distant surfer on the horizon.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Another Lego life raft lost overboard from the Tokio Express back in 1997 has been discovered, this time by Belgian fisherman Chris Meyers of fishing vessel Z-91 Franson who hauled it up in his nets southwest of the Isles of Scilly. Picture credit: Chris Meyers
Picture shows Belgian fisherman Chris Meyers holding a yellow Lego life raft
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This plastic toy building brick was found in the stomach of a Sable Shearwater chick on Lord Howe, a remote island located off the east coast of Australia. It was discovered by scientists at @adriftlab.bsky.social, a research group focused on seabirds and marine plastics.
Picture shows 246 pieces of plastic that had been ingested by a Sable Shearwater chickPicture shows a hand holding a plastic toy building brick against a cream fabric backgroundPicture shows a healthy Sable Shearwater chick, not the one that had ingested 246 pieces of plastic
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Noticed some orange feet sticking out of a clump of seaweed...
Tangle of seaweed with orange feet sticking out of it. Black plastic duck with orange feet perched on a rock, sand and sea in the background.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So many jellyfish washing ashore. Magnificent barrel jellies (know too as dustbin lid jellyfish because of their size), compass jellies, blue jellies and moon jellyfish. #Cornwall
Stranded barrel jellyfish, bright blue in colour. Tennis ball for scale.Stranded compass jellyfish. The V shaped markings resemble the face of a compass, hence its name.Stranded blue jellyfishStranded moon jellyfish with its four pink horseshoe-shaped gonads.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The World Shipping Council has released its annual Containers Lost at Sea Report, showing that an estimated 1,478 containers were lost at sea in 2025. One major vessel loss accounted for 640 containers. As an aside, there were nearly 5m pieces of Lego inside a container lost at sea in 1997.
Variety of Lego pieces including dragons, sharks, cutlasses and an octopus laid out on a patterned sepia background
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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!
a pencil
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Slightly baffled by the fact that the BBC are reporting the arrival of by-the-wind sailors on beaches as headline news tonight - they turn up all the time! Here are some we photographed in Cornwall this week...
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Lego hauled out of the sea west of the Isles of Scilly by Belgian fisherman Chris Meyers. Although we’ve seen the green Lego bricks before, we can’t recall seeing any of the black fences, even though 43,200 were lost overboard from the Tokio Express. Just 43,199 black Lego fences still to find, then
Two large green Lego bricks and a black Lego fence laid out on a tiled floor, with human hand for scale.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Another Lego life raft has surfaced, nearly 30 years after it fell into the sea. This one was found last week by Belgian fisherman Diego Vandierendonck, who hauled it up in his nets while fishing south of the Isles of Scilly. Picture credit: Diego Vandierendonck.
Picture shows a sea weary yellow Lego life raft on a black textured surface. The life raft has the remains of various marine organisms attached to it. Picture shows a yellow Lego life raft on a black textured surface. The picture has been taken on board a fishing vessel, which is visible in the background.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Look what Lucy McCarthy found at Rhossili Bay on the beautiful Gower Peninsula in Wales at the weekend – a black Lego dragon, one of 33,427 lost overboard from the Tokio Express back in 1997. Very many thanks to Lucy for sharing her story and picture with us.
Seaworn black Lego dragon with single barnacle attached being held in someone's hand against a white background
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The things we leave behind. #oceanplastic #marinedebris #beachlitter #beachfinds
Variety of colourful plastic objects laid out on a white background Variety of colourful plastic objects laid out on a white background Variety of colourful plastic objects laid out on a white background Variety of colourful plastic objects laid out on a white background
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
#StGeorgesDay
Black Lego dragon pictured on sand alongside plastic knight figurine, with sea and cloudy blue sky in background
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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?
Debris strewn across Coral Beach, Cheung Chau island.A single yellow Lego flower lying on the sand, amid shells and plastic debris.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Sad to find another puffin washed up today. There have been so many.
Picture shows a puffin lying on its back among rocks, sea and sky in the background
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Last night, on the shores beneath St Michael’s Mount, the ancient tidal island off the coast of Cornwall, Liutauras found a Lego dragon - one of nearly 34,000 lost overboard from the cargo ship Tokio Express back in 1997.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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.
Image shows brightly coloured Lego pieces including dragons and sharks as well as cutlasses and an octopus, all laid out on pale brown clock patterned paper with handwritten captions in italics
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Not Lego lost at sea this time but a leg lost at sea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Prosthetic leg lost at sea in Bridlington found 10 months later
Brenda Ogden is surprised that her £2,000 leg was found washed up on the Holderness coast on Monday.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The Lego reports continue to come in thick and fast. Many thanks to our friends Julian and Jess Tredinnick, who sent us these pictures of their beach clean today at Marazion in Cornwall. "Two bin bags of rubbish hardly made a dent," they told us. "But we did spot some treasure."
Picture shows a figure carrying black bin liners of rubbish across rocks, with St Michael's Mount in the background Picture shows a Lego cutlass from the spill among microplastics on the beach
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
We've been finding lots of these washed up recently. We understand they are pall rings, used in the chemical, petrochemical and oil refining industries. Anyone here familiar with them? We understand they're used in waste water treatment too.
Picture shows six beige cylindrical objects with 'windows' and internal 'crossbars' laid out on a white background
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Six years ago Sarah Rutherford found a Lego octopus while litter picking on Rock beach in Cornwall. Then yesterday she found another at Polzeath. “I gave the first Lego octopus I found away and always felt a bit sad," she said. "This one’s a keeper." Picture credit: Sarah Rutherford
Black Lego octopus tangled in marine debris and held aloft over Polzeath beach with sand, sea, cliffs and sky in background.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Another Lego shark has been found! It was discovered on Sunday by Emma Fraser Trecurno at East Portholland beach in Cornwall. It's one of 51,800 Lego sharks that fell into the ocean on 13th February 1997. Picture credit: Emma Fraser Trecurno
Picture shows grey Lego shark on wooden table top.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Why are there so many monopoly houses in the sea? We've found dozens over the years - and most of the beachcombers we know have discovered them too. This one washed up yesterday.
Picture shows a small green monopoly house lying among microplastics on the strandline with sea, sky and cliffs in the background
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
@legolostatsea.bsky.social He has hardly slept since he got the book. Dressed at 6. ready for a beach, but worried it might all have been found. I promised to ask Tracey how many of the millions she guesses might still be out there. I feel like I am a drug dealer, I have hooked another addict!
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Another yellow Lego life raft has surfaced after nearly 29 years at the bottom of the sea. Back in 1997, 28,700 of these plummeted into the ocean when a shipping container with nearly five million pieces of Lego inside fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express, some 20 miles off Land's End.
Picture shows a very sea-worn yellow Lego life raft on a white background. The life raft has been colonised by marine organisms, including tubeworms.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We found this old can of Barr's Strike Cola in the dunes last week, revealed by shifting sands. Not quite sure how old it is but in the thread we've shared a link to a single released by Barr's in 1971 to promote their new drink.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We're often asked what we do with all the plastic we pick up from beaches. These rope floats are off to @carlsayer.bsky.social at UCL for use in eel surveys and conservation work
Picture shows cardboard shoe box containing nine yellow rope floats and one black one
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Chip wreck: Well done to all the volunteers working hard to remove all the plastic bags the chips came in www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Chip wreck! Thousands of chips wash ashore near Eastbourne
The chips washed up in Sussex after shipping containers containing
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Stone age controller found...
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Storm coming. 100mph winds forecast tonight. #Cornwall
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Grey triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) washed up on the north coast of Cornwall today.
Grey triggerfish lying on sand
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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
#SundaySurprise - my one and only, very precious, bit of lego from the 1997 containership spill (for more details see @legolostatsea.bsky.social & their book “adrift” ). Found in Wales. #Beachcombing
A small blue plastic flipper lying among sandy pebbles
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Do-you-think-he-saurus
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Sometimes you can find Lego from the Great Spill of 1997 without even setting foot on the beach. We found this red Lego flower among debris in a car park overlooking St Michael's Mount in Cornwall.
Red Lego daisy pictured among natural and manmade debris in a beachside car park.A seaweed covered beach with St Michael's Mount in the background.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Another day, another year and another of these mystery objects washed up. What are they and where are they coming from? Numerous suggestions have been put forward* but we still haven't found an exact match.
Plastic circular object held aloft on a beach, sea and sky in background.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The day we found Santa's pants.
Festive pants washed up on the beach.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Remnants of Christmas past. Festive baubles found washed up on Cornish beaches.
Festive baubles lying on sand.
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Merry Christmas one and all....
Santa-shaped Christmas lighting decoration from a cargo spill, pictured upright on the beach with blue sea and sky in the background
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