The star of the Vasa Museum is a giant Swedish ship from the 1600's that sank only minutes after its maiden voyage - due to improper design of the ballast - and remained on the Baltic sea bottom until salvage operations in the 1950's. I learned about ship discipline, including keel hauling, which is where you haul the misbehaving sailor under the keel from one end to the other. There was a section on life on the ship titled 'stench, disease and tedium.' Which could also describe certain portions of my current trip. I also saw a couple of movies about the salvage operations and various disasters at sea.

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Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden