Inside the Vasa Museum

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