{"id":211,"date":"2023-11-15T19:48:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startersites.io\/blocksy\/daily-news\/?p=211"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:57:55","slug":"amet-purus-bravida-quisblandit-turpis-mursus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/amet-purus-bravida-quisblandit-turpis-mursus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vasa: A Warship That Sank in 20 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa set sail on her maiden voyage, built to be the pride of the Swedish navy \u2014 and sank before she&#8217;d even left Stockholm&#8217;s harbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top-heavy with too many heavy cannons and too little ballast to compensate, the ship rolled over in a light gust of wind less than a mile into her voyage. Dozens of people on board drowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"a-perfectly-preserved-mistake\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Perfectly Preserved Mistake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Vasa lay largely intact on the cold, low-oxygen floor of the harbor for over 300 years, which paradoxically preserved her wooden hull almost perfectly. She was raised in 1961 and is now one of the best-preserved 17th-century ships in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigations later found that the king himself had personally overruled engineers&#8217; concerns about the ship&#8217;s stability \u2014 a reminder that even obvious warnings can be ignored when a powerful enough person wants a different answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>How often do you think engineering warnings still get overruled by people who simply outrank the engineers?<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa set sail on her maiden voyage, built to be the pride of the Swedish navy \u2014 and sank before she&#8217;d even left Stockholm&#8217;s harbor. Top-heavy with too many heavy cannons and too little ballast to compensate, the ship rolled over in a light gust of wind less than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disasters-tragedies"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastsaga.com\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}