BAILEYS HARBOR, Wis. -- Brendon Baillod wasn't expecting to find the F.J. King.

Sure, the president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association (WUAA) had researched the old schooner's wreck. He'd read her captain's report about where she sank, but he didn't know he'd be the one to solve the 139-year-old mystery about the ship's final resting place.

"There were many competent records that had tried to find it," Baillod said. "Commercial fisherman, the whole thing."

But hours into an exhibition, on a tour boat with a group of citizen scientists, Baillod's deep-vision sonar picked up a view over a century in the making.

"You could see every aspect of it, you know, it left almost nothing to the imagination," he said. "We kind of were pinching ourselves. We couldn't believe it that

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