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toyyya t1_ixc51pt wrote

Reply to comment by LeoSolaris in Ancient shipwreck sees light of day again, a major milestone for Chinese underwater archaeology by IslandChillin

Even we here in Sweden have raised a pretty darn big ship from the 1600s and have since put it on display in a museum.

We did that in the 60s, it ain't exactly a huge innovation to be able to do so

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[deleted] t1_ixca9kp wrote

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toyyya t1_ixcaxb2 wrote

Pretty darn cool, you can definitely tell the difference in the seas of how well it survived in the waters.

We raised the Vasa out of the Baltic Sea which isn't quite salty or quite fresh water (aka brackish water). Meaning that there are less creatures able to break it down living in the waters which is why it survived relatively intact.

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LiTMac t1_ixcxvwt wrote

When I went to the museum about 4 or 5 years ago, I remember someone telling me that part of what helped was also the amount of trash that had been thrown into the fjord over the centuries, which created an anoxic environment down the bottom of the water.

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imafraidofmuricans t1_ixcozhh wrote

It does depend on where the boat is. Like, the Baltic has perfect conditions for preserving the wood and is quite shallow.

Had Vasa sunk over the Marian trench we wouldn't be picking it, is my point.

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