vasa museum

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the vasa museum was really interesting. In 1628 the most powerful war ship the Swedish king had built was set out to sea. There were mostly seamen and there families. they fired the lower canons in salute while all the swedes looked proudly on. A wind blew the ship tilting it and water started plunging in the open gun doors. the ballast balls also rolled to that side of the ship preventing it from righting itself. later they realized the ship was too narrow and had too many cannons higher up. It sank. over 300 years later it was brought to the surface and after extensive efforts to reconstruct the ship, they put it back together to 95% of its original state. the ship was put into a museum with all the artifacts found at the bottom including the skeletons.

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