An Amateur Pilot Found 3 Shipwrecks in 3 Days. 10 Years Later, Her Grandson Found Another One.
created: May 23, 2025, noon | updated: May 30, 2025, 1:13 p.m.
The wreckage turned out to be the J.C. Ames, which sank in a fiery display on that spot more than a century ago.
Thuss isn’t the only member of his family to make such a discovery—a decade earlier, his step-grandmother earned the nickname “Shipwreck Suzze” for spotting three different shipwrecks over the course of three days.
How else can you explain how a grandmother and grandson duo both unwittingly discovered a cumulative four shipwrecks decades apart?
Remarkable as that is, the surprising twists don’t stop there: “Shipwreck Suzze” also just so happens to be Christopher Thuss’ step-grandmother.
According to WisconsinShipwrecks.org, the ship now known as the J.C. Ames began life under a different name—the J.C. Perrett.
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