A Father and Daughter Went Fishing—and Accidentally Discovered a 153-Year-Old Shipwreck
created: May 8, 2025, 1:31 p.m. | updated: May 15, 2025, 3:13 p.m.
A father and daughter who were out on a fishing adventure discovered a previously unknown shipwreck.
But when Jordan Ciesielzyk, a maritime specialist with the Wisconsin Historical Society, saw Tim’s photos, he suspected the find was something they hadn’t seen before.
“It ended up breaking up in storms over the years and ice,” Tamar Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist for the Wisconsin Historical Society, told NPR.
Ciesielzyk told NBC 26 that 13 shipwrecks have been discovered in Wisconsin in the last year, all by accident.
“She was hoping,” Tim tells NBC 26, “that there would be some treasure that we could get to keep from the boat.”
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