Sailing Dad Discovers 19th Century Shipwreck with Daughter in Wisconsin Lake

Tim Wollak went fishing with his daughter Henley in August. They did this near their home in Wisconsin in the northeastern United States.

Radar image

In the area in Green Bay where they were sailing in their boat, Wollak saw what looked like a shipwreck on the radar image. He took out the map, but there was nothing about a possible shipwreck. Because the area has been well mapped, he assumed ‘it would be nothing’, he says The Washington Post.

His daughter also saw the underwater image and thought she saw tentacles. “That looks like an octopus,” she said. To be sure, he took pictures of the image on his so-called fish finder and saved the location. Continuing to wonder what he had seen at the bottom of the lake, he shared the images in a local Facebook group this fall.

Three-master

Scientists soon responded to his photos: they also saw a shipwreck. It is probably the George L. Newman, a three-masted ship of more than 37 meters long that sank during the forest fire in Peshtigo.

That 1871 fire was the deadliest ever in the United States, killing an estimated 2,500 people. The now 5-year-old tells the American newspaper that she hopes to make ‘many more’ discoveries.

2023-12-21 00:07:32
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