Teenager finds 'holy grail' of LEGO figures that fell from ship during a storm in 1997

A thirteen-year-old boy has found a LEGO octopus on a beach in Cornwall, England. This is considered the 'holy grail' of a huge collection of LEGO figures that fell from a cargo ship during a heavy storm in 1997.
During the storm, around five million LEGO pieces ended up in the sea at Land's End in Cornwall. Among those millions of pieces were 352,000 flippers, 97,500 diving tanks and 92,400 swords. The octopus is the rarest, with 4,200 pieces.

In the years since, collectors have found several LEGO pieces, but the octopus has often remained elusive. Thirteen-year-old Liutauras Cemolonskas is the leading collector with a collection of no fewer than 789 LEGO pieces.

He collected these over the past two years, his father told the regional news agency PA Media. "The octopus was the most sought after piece from the beginning. We did not expect to find this piece because of its rarity."