Unfortunately, Vasa was too top heavy and dangerously unstable.
On the day of departure, a swelling crowd gathered at the harbor to watch the ship leave.
Around 30 people lost their lives.
He wrote angrily to the Royal Council in Stockholm demanding that the guilty parties be punished.
“Imprudence and negligence” must have been the cause, he wrote.
Part of the blame lies on the king himself.
On their third pass, the ship was ready to capsize at the quay.
However, despite the efforts at preserving, the ship continues to decay away.
The ship itself has been treated with cloth saturated in a basic liquid to neutralize the acid.
Vasa might not last for long, but its legacy will certainly last for ever.
