A FISHERMAN who lives in Plymouth has landed an extremely rare shark that has not been spotted for 27 years – since it was lost off the back of a ship.
Richard West, 35, found the plastic toy on the top of his fishing nets 20 miles (32km) south of Penzance on Tuesday last week.
He contacted the project Lego Lost at Sea, whose founder Tracey Williams confirmed the piece to be the first-ever reported shark from the 51,800 Lego sharks lost off the Tokio Express cargo ship on 13 February 1997.
A freak wave in a severe gale swept 62 shipping containers into the sea 20 miles (32km) off Land’s End, one of which held 4,756,940 pieces of Lego, much of it sea-themed.
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