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A father and daughter went fishing. What they found was a 152-year-old shipwreck

Tim Wollak and his 5-year-old daughter Henley first thought they came across an octopus. But their discovery is presumed to be a shipwreck connected to the deadliest wildfire in American history.
Sonar image presumed to be of the George L. Newman shipwreck

While Tim Wollak and his 5-year-old daughter Henley were fishing near Green Island in Green Bay, Wisc., their fish finder sonar device picked up on something.

At first, Henley thought the images were of some sort of rare,

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