The Swedish warship Vasa sunk in 1628 CE, only 1,300 m into her maiden voyage. Not only was the ship salvaged nearly intact, but so were the remains of the people on board, including a sailor’s brain [1080×783]
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The Swedish warship Vasa sunk in 1628 CE, only 1,300 m into her maiden voyage. Not only was the ship salvaged nearly intact, but so were the remains of the people on board, including a sailor’s brain [1080×783]
by Fuckoff555
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Wow, probably the most interesting post I’ve seen on this sub. Isn’t this the one with the museum in Stockholm?
It’s amazing how well-preserved it is— you can see all the wrinkles!
The survival of soft tissue always seems like a little bit of a miracle to me when we’re talking about hundreds of years, underwater, of course, in a low oxygen environment, silt, and so on there’s a lot of explanation for it, but it still seems a miracle where everything eats everything underwater.
The Vasa ship is absolutely fascinating. Probably one of the best preserved ships of that century.
Is there anything they can determine from the brain aside from like if he’s syphilitic?
Check out the big brain on Bretttttt!