The Vasa Sank 20 Minutes Into Her Maiden Voyage — Here's Why

Chapters

1. 00:00Twenty minutes afloat
2. 00:30In full view
3. 00:58Built to sink
4. 01:33A warship as propaganda
5. 02:03War waits for no ship
6. 02:31Beauty masking imbalance
7. 02:57The order that doomed her
8. 03:23Building up, not out
9. 03:51"I followed the king's specifications exactly."
10. 04:15The builder should have better knowledge
11. 04:44Perfect sailing weather
12. 05:15The gust that changed everything
13. 05:43The tilt past recovery
14. 06:15Twenty minutes afloat
15. 06:45The shipwright's silent knowledge
16. 07:15The theory arrived a century too late
17. 07:43When intuition had no standing
18. 08:16The inquest that blamed no one
19. 08:50No one guilty
20. 09:20Thirty-two meters down
21. 09:50August 25, 1956
22. 10:18The Search
23. 10:49April 24, 1961
24. 11:23The Ship That Couldn't Say No

About this video

1628: the most magnificent warship ever built sails 1,300 meters and capsizes in front of the crowd. The king's pressure, an extra gun deck, and stability physics no shipwright dared explain. In this video: • The royal demands that doomed the design • Stability physics, made visual • The test that predicted the sinking (and was ignored) • How the Vasa survived 333 years underwater #maritime #vasa #history #engineering

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