"If you could lift this boat out of the water, and pump the water out, it would probably float.”
That is a fascinating possibility.
btw title should be amended "found by European explorers". Or change the date to 162 years, since it was discovered by an Inuit gentleman six years earlier?
The whole thing is also a living example of lessons about project and product management: how uncontrolled requirements made by the major stakeholder (in this case, king Gustaf Adolf) changed the project scope (so many guns were ordered to be fitted that the ship had to have two gun decks, with too high center of gravity) which then caused a major technical disaster (it capsized in wind). And then starts the hunt for a scapegoat.
That is a fascinating possibility.
btw title should be amended "found by European explorers". Or change the date to 162 years, since it was discovered by an Inuit gentleman six years earlier?