Father, 6-year-old daughter stumble upon century-old shipwreck in Lake Michigan
When Tim Wollak’s 6-year-old daughter first saw something unusual while fishing in Lake Michigan, she thought it was an octopus.
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When Tim Wollak’s 6-year-old daughter first saw something unusual while fishing in Lake Michigan, she thought it was an octopus.
“I don’t know how we top it,” said Tim Wollak. “I told her I’m pretty sure there’s no one else in her school that has ever found a shipwreck that nobody had recorded before….I guess we’ll just have to fish more and see if we can find more shipwrecks.”
When Tim Wollak's 6-year-old daughter first saw something unusual while fishing in Lake Michigan, she thought it was an octopus.
In an unexpected twist during a casual fishing trip, a family's sonar detection, initially thought to be an octopus, turns out to be a historic shipwreck missing since 1871 in Lake Michigan.
When Tim Wollak’s 6-year-old daughter first saw something unusual while fishing in Lake Michigan, she thought it was an octopus.