I visited the Vasa museum in late 2019 and it was stunning. Not just how well it had been preserved but how few people died in it.
They noted that one of the biggest contributors to its preservation was simply the location: since it had barely left the harbor, it was shielded from most storms and buried in mud in relatively shallow water.
Even better, when it sank, the Vasa was still just a few hundred feet from shore so only a few dozen people died instead of the hundreds onboard.
They noted that one of the biggest contributors to its preservation was simply the location: since it had barely left the harbor, it was shielded from most storms and buried in mud in relatively shallow water.
Even better, when it sank, the Vasa was still just a few hundred feet from shore so only a few dozen people died instead of the hundreds onboard.