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F. How did the Lego blocks land in the water?

LEGO AT SEA

4.1. _____ On 13 February 1997, a Japanese ship, the Tokyo Express, was hit by a huge wave. The ship did not sink but the wave was so strong that the ship moved 60 degrees forward and then 40 degrees back the other way. As a result, 62 steel containers fell overboard. One of these containers was full of Lego blocks.

4.2. _____ No-one knows how the blocks got out of the steel container, but shortly after the incident they began appearing on beaches in Cornwall. There are stories of kids in the 1990s finding blocks in many different shapes. They built whole sets out of them. The biggest one was the sea collection made of octopuses, fish, divers, sea dragons and pirates.

4.3. _____ Oceanographers have calculated that over so many years the blocks have had enough time to circle the globe and can wash up on any beach in the world. Researchers have been trying to track the lost Lego blocks, but it is still a mystery where most of the pieces are. Experts can't explain why the Lego pieces from the Tokyo Express have been reported only in Cornwall.

4.4. _____ Scientists have known for years that litter and plastic pieces can keep going around the seas for centuries and are a great risk to wildlife, which might take it for food. So the blocks, which were produced to give kids fun, have now become a threat to many sea creatures.