Saving the Swedish warship, VASA
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- čas přidán 7. 02. 2014
- In 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa, sank to the bottom of Stockholm Harbour on her maiden voyage. 330 years later in 1956, the Vasa was found and raised by Anders Franzen.
The Vasa was vitually intact, a perfect time capsule.
This is absolutely amazing! To see something that was made in the 1600s and still in its original form, is absolutely breathtaking!
Having met a Swedish colleague at University of Michigan in the early 1970s I was privileged to see the VASA in the "moisturising" chamber, - only to see it again in the 1990s when it had been displayed in its restored form in its current glory.
As a bonus I was also able to see "The Coronation of Popea" in the Drottningholm Opera, with the youthful Swedish King in attendance.
I couldn't imagine being a 17th century diver
I love history. Like when i see stuff like this it literally puts me in a trance just thinking of how and what happened in those days. Cause i know 300 years from now people will be fascinated and wondering how lived...
Wow! Thats what was left for over 300 years? Seeing what it looks like now is amazing.
I was 8n Stockholm mid 80s. I noticed the museum and made my way over to it. It was being kept wet then. Amazing sight and background. I have kept an eye on the progress in the following years.
over 300 years beneath the surface.... astonishing for it to be in such a good condition for a ship made of wood
Igor Valar IKEA power
Igor Valar there is not much salt on those waters
Igor Valar made in sweden
The infamous shipworm (aka "termite of the sea") doesn't live in the brackish water of the Baltic Sea.
I guess we are just going to ignore that it floated ITSELF (after draining of course) back to the restoration building. Holy cow!
In sweden we have this old practice that if your boat leaks too much in the spring, you can let her sink in shallow water, resting on the bottom for a week or so before you bilge her out and raise her up again. That will make her perfectly dry for the rest of the season.
In this case it took some three hundred and thirty years of soaking (a bit excessive I'll admit) but it sure did the trick!
its because the ship didnt sink by a rock or etc, it sank because it had too much weight
@@Televroszky2144 Not weight, too high center of gravity. If anything she had too *little* weight as ballast. Her two decks of cannons made her top heavy and this is why a mere gust of wind made her roll too much and sink. More ballast (bottom weight) might have helped but she was still too narrow and too high with too high center of gravity. Weight? Not what sunk her.
Went to the Vasa museum a few years back. Well worth the visit. Amazing ship.
So did i last year in March. Breathtaking sight
Again. The Black Pearl!
This is a beautiful ship.
This is fascinating!! It’s been beautifully preserved!
This is freaking amazing!!!!
Damn, the Baltic sure is muddy!
Increíblemente hermoso, magnífico!!!
Amazing!
Speechless...
The fact that they actually found one of the crews bodies too… especially after that long; that doesn’t happen often. Usually the ocean claims everything even the bones…
Brackish water found in the Baltic Sea is impossible for some sea organisms to survive in as well as the cold water. Ship worm can't survive at all and therefore won't eat away the ship. For this reason the regular decomposition which would take place in salt water and warmer places didn't happen. Add to the historical irony that the heavy pollution of the water from industries in the late 1800's and early 1900's made it an even worse place for sea organisms but was most fortunate for the Vasa ship.
The researcher who found Vasa (and other ships of the era) actually argued that the cold, brackish water would mean the decomposition of the ships being a lot slower than usual and that this meant that if a ship sank intact (not from any explosion of the gun powder for instance) it could be salvaged in very good shape.
Vasa simply sunk in the perfect spot. Had she sunk in salt water with strong currents or where ship worm and other organisms thrive she'd be long gone.
Anders Franzen found the ship in 1956, but it wasn't until 1961 that it was raised from the water.
During those five years the divers prepared the raising, by digging tunnels (using a kind of underwater vacuum cleaner) for the cables and a lot of temporary carpentry work . Imagine diving in dirty water with almost no visibility about 30 meters (cirka 100 feet) down.
@@axelnelson374 Yes, it was a small miracle none of the divers were injured or worse killed. Apparently they spent a lot of time *inside* the tunnels under the ship which barely were large enough to fit the divers. Nothing for anybody faint of heart.
Imagine the 17th century divers that salvaged almost all her cannons and also using the same diving bell on Kronan (that sunk in open water 1676!) Diving bell was also used in the 1620ies on a Spanish (?) galleon that sunk near Cuba. In the 16th century an African diver lead a team of free divers on Mary Rose UK. But making the tunnels under Vasa in the end og the 1950ies need guts and Fälting seems to have been a good and calm boss for the young divers.@@McLarenMercedes
Raised 333 years after that embarrasing disaster. Raised in 1961.
Great👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Respect.
Que grandioso lleno de historia, de vidas pasadas
Conozco el Museo Vasa he ido muchas veces, me fascina, es introducirme en el pasado, en la historia, es absolutamente mágico.
this is the best ship 😃🙏👌
Vasa was raised in 1961. She was re-discovered in 1956. You broke the pots here.
Yet still they keep saying that bullshit the steel made HMHS Britannic would dissolve if she was ever raised due to being 106 years underwater while the vasa made of wood stayed 330 years and then was raised and turned into a museum
You're joking right?
If you're serious then I'm really not going to inform you how ignorant and silly that comparison is.
I live in sweden i have sen that ship in Stockholm museum
is it cool?
@@peytonadams5303
It’s amazing
Saw it today
Words can’t describe
@@elit3268 amazing doesnt do it justice. It's breathtaking
She was found 1956 but was raised 1961
The Fourth Of May is my Birthday.
The Swedes should have tried to save those trapped sailors. 300 years under water is too long to hold ones breath!
That looks 60s color film was first of all rare in the 50s but in sweden it was damn rare so i think its 60s and also the sound isnt from the 50s that is obviously added later. Im swedish
The ship was found in 1956. It was raised in 1961.
A antiguos indonesios contemporáneos del rey Gustavo, les habría causado poca o ninguna impresión el majestuoso y masivo galeón Vasa, pues ellos venían construyendo barcos mas grandes y marineros que el coloso sueco, desde al menos el siglo XII, como lo constataron celebres marinos, viajeros y eruditos como Marco Polo, Odorico de Pordenone, Ibn Battûta y Alfonso de Alburquerque, los impresionantes y robustos Djong de Java, construidos en resistente madera de teca
diseñados para viajes en alta mar, alcanzaban una longitud de entre 80 y 110 metros de largo. según las diversas fuentes antes, solo tenían parangón en los barcos del tesoro del almirante chino Zheng He. aun hoy en ciertas regiones de Indonesia los siguen construyendo, siguiendo el ancestral diseño tradicional en madera, solo que empleando herramientas modernas junto con las antiguas, y adaptándole un motor Diesel, para complemento de seguridad de las grandes velas czcams.com/video/jmJYD-HFvSQ/video.html
Очень интересный музей в Стокгольме, обязательно посетите его. Ну, когда коронавирус пройдет. Very interesting museum in Stockholm, a must see for everyone. As soon as coronavirus allows you do it.
Titanic 2🚢
Image 300 year old body so well geap it still have all uniforms and brain left
Biggest 🚢 ship run big electric moter use
2021 Hadir
Yoo is that skeleton?
Yup, but there's no DNA in there. It's just a shell
@@masterdevoe2519DNA has been extracted and analyzed, from the 17 (maybe 19) skeletons found onboard.
Swedish: den va inte gjord att slåss mot andra, de va bara till kungen fast den sänktes tack vare tyngden på hur många kanoner de fanns
Hon var byggd för att slåss mot fienden. Men hon hade för lite skrov under vattenytan och för mycket tyngd över vattenytan.
через 400 лет в музее найдут этот корабль и построят по образцу новый))) и он так же утонет