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17 years ago, a ship bound for New York was carrying Legos across the Atlantic,

and it was hit with a big wave and dropped a giant container of the Legos overboard.

And ever since that storm, Legos from that container have been washing the shore in Cornwall,

which is in England.

Curtis Ebus Meyer studies ocean currents

and how things, like Legos, travel through them.

So, Kurt, you heard about this crate of Legos

going overboard pretty early on in the story.

What did you do when you heard?

Yeah, I've been following it for 17 years ever since the 5 million fell overboard in a box-off lands end in 1997.

So I quick emailed the LEGO company and they sent me a sample of each one of

a hundred piece kinds in the box so I knew that I knew which ones would float. So how far had the Legos traveled?

Well, see, let's do a little math.

17 years times 7 miles a day, times 365 days days a year gives enough time to go around the

planet a couple times maybe.

Really so so how far away are these Legos showing up now in the 17 years since those containers went overboard?

Well, just a slight correction was one container holding 5 million individual pieces.

So the question is, and it's a very perceptive one,

how do we know where they went?

And the point is, there's so many LEGO on the beaches

that nobody really understands how to differentiate these Legos from the

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