how the vasa survived 3 centuries underwater 🤯 📍 Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 🏴‍☠️ The Vasa is the world’s ONLY preserved 17th century warship 💦 It sank in the “shallow” harbor of the Baltic Sea, where it was protected from storms & strong currents 🌕 Because the ship was newly built & sank in the cold, dark & almost oxygen-free water with low salt content, the wood was able to stay quite well preserved, besides the iron fastenings 🧊 To retrieve the ship, people pondered filling it

The Vasa, a heavily armed Swedish warship, met an unfortunate end when it sank during its inaugural voyage in 1628, just a short distance from the shoreline. The tragedy was largely due to structural defects that rendered the ship perilously top-heavy. Armed with 64 bronze cannons and lacking adequate ballast for stability, the Vasa quickly capsized. After lying on the seabed for 333 years, the vessel was recovered in 1961, remarkably well-preserved. It is now housed in the Vasa Museum in Stockh