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I visited Vasa museum in May this year. It is a beautiful ship and one of its kind, which has been painstakingly restored to full glory indoors ใผ including the ornate decorations & few of the 46 cannons. They even explained details of years-long restoration process of replacing the wood's moisture entirely with some polymeric binder (can't remember the compound). Every stage with photographs - starting with how they found it, salvaged it & bringing it to current state.
They have even managed to salvage & reconstruct the faces of few of these seamen. It was incredible learning experience about medieval seafaring. Highly recommend, and it is bang next to the Gamle Stan (the old city seen in almost all stock photos of Stockholm).
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As a funny anecdote engineering students placed a modern miniature statue on the ships deck as a prank just before it was raised ( in Finnish but translation tools help https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa-jรคynรค )
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> The cause was poor design and a lack of appropriate ballast, rushed into production despite flaws.
The Vasa is a textbook case of vanity stakeholders demanding deep last minute changes in complex engineered systems. It wasn't exactly rushed into production, the changes were rushed, not the entire thing.
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For anyone visiting Stockholm, make sure to visit the Vasa Museum. So cool
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> the most powerful warship in the world.
Prime example of 'theory vs. practice'.
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What were the consequences for the engineers
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