vasa

One of the main reasons the Vasa is so well preserved is that the Baltic isn't saltwater - it's just slightly brackish.

The master shipbuilder who was in charge of the project fled back to Holland when Vasa sank.

Stroustoup has one vote, not everything he advocates for wins votes, including having a saner C++ (Remember the Vasa paper).

The Vasa had her cannon brought up to the surface but was otherwise left alone.

Monitorama hosted a great talk by Pete Cheslock about the Vasa warship project.

You could also try HMS Victory in the UK or the Vasa in Sweden (other really old ships are available and some are still sailing).

For-profit museums aren't really a thing in Sweden either, because you won't be making a profit, unless you're the Vasa Museum, but even that is struggling.

But the salvaging of Vasa was an incredible feat.

When in Stockholm, go visit the Vasa museum.

And another good thing about the Vasa museum?

Just visited the Vasa museum last weekend.

The Vasa had a critical engineering flaw (way too top heavy) that came about due to pressure from the king.

I suppose the ship on the title slide is "the one that sails" (it's not the Vasa).

Also, I've yet to meet anyone who thought the Vasa sank because "Swedes were stupid."

Gendered patronymic names used to be common here in Sweden - Katarina Gustavsdotter (Vasa) was the daughter of Gusav Eriksson (Vasa), who was the son of Erik Johansson (Vasa), &c.

Yeah, I probably shouldn't have expected it to look like the Swedish Vasa, but I was still disappointed.

Brings to mind Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus the Great's pride-and-joy warship Vasa.