Teen unearths rare Lego octopus lost at sea since 1997
He regularly visits local beaches with his parents, hunting for rare Lego bricks. Over two years, he has found 789 of them. This time, Liutauras Cemolonskas, a thirteen-year-old from Cornwall, has stumbled upon a rare treasure.
8:27 AM EDT, April 29, 2024
The family from Cornwall has quite an unusual hobby. Together, they roam the beaches in search of rare LEGO pieces.
This time, they found a real treasure. The thirteen-year-old found a plastic octopus on the beach, an extremely rare LEGO piece that fell into the sea from a cargo ship during a storm in 1997.
It is one of the most valued pieces in old-school Lego sets, as there were only 4,200 octopuses on board the mentioned ship. Experts call them the "Holy Grail" among bricks.
The thirteen-year-old routinely combs the beaches with his parents in search of such treasures. In just two years, he has found as many as 789 LEGO bricks on the beach. It turns out that the boy inherited this unusual hobby from his dad.
I was interested in archaeology when I was a kid and later Liutauras started doing (beachcombing) too, so we were always just doing it together as a family - says 36-year-old Vytautas Cemolonskas, the boy's father.
The father and son admit in conversations with the media that they were consistently looking for the octopus but did not have too high hopes, knowing how rare the piece is.
Now, the family is engaged in beachcombing, which involves searching the beach for interesting or rare items. They plan to find another rare element.
Their new goal is to find one of the 33,941 dragons in 62 cargo containers that fell into the sea in an accident 20 miles off Land's End.
