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Everything is Awesome: How Lego Sails the Seas

Jul 24, 2014
From PRI (Opens in new window) and WNYC (Opens in new window)
Daisies among the debris...
Daisies among the debris... (Tracey Williams)
(Tracey Williams)
A piece of Lego sea grass.
A piece of Lego sea grass. (Tracey WIlliams)
A scuba tank, diver flipper and daisy, all from the container of Lego that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997.
A scuba tank, diver flipper and daisy, all from the container of Lego that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997. (Tracey Williams)
These Lego dragons washed up in Bigbury on Sea, South Devon, England in the late 1990s.
These Lego dragons washed up in Bigbury on Sea, South Devon, England in the late 1990s. (Tracey Williams)
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