MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.-
This beach town has completed its attempt to build the world's tallest sand castle, a 32 1/2-foot creation featuring two dozen spires and guarded by a pair of gargoyles.
The castle, as tall as a three-story building, was built on the beach at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion Amusement Park and stands 3 inches taller than a castle built in 2003 in Falmouth, Maine.
Myrtle Beach already held the record for the world's longest sand castle–a 10 1/2-mile long castle in 1991.
Although the Myrtle Beach castle was vandalized a few days before completion, the creators managed to repair it. City officials announced on June 7 that they believed they had surpassed the existing record, according to The Sun News.
A small helicopter with a camera flew over the 60-foot-wide castle to take footage for submission to the Guinness Book of World Records for confirmation of the world record, a process that could take months.
It took six professional sand castle builders from Team Sandtastic of Florida eight days to build the castle, which contains 130 dump truck loads of sand.
