# The Vasa Disaster

*Tom Geraghty · Stories & Cases, Safety & Human Error*

Uses the 1628 Vasa disaster — a warship that sank on its maiden voyage — to examine how people who knew it would sink stayed silent. A case study in the relationship between authoritarian power, face-saving, and catastrophic organisational failure.

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## Connected concepts (8)

- [Calculus of Voice](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/the-calculus-of-voice.md)
- [Crew Resource Mgmt](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/crew-resource-management-and-psychological-safety.md)
- [Local Rationality](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/local-rationality.md)
- [Normalisation of Deviance (Challenger)](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/normalisation-of-deviance.md)
- [The Tenerife Disaster](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/the-tenerife-disaster-of-1977-were-going.md)
- [Everest & PS](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/everest.md)
- [Plan Continuation Bias](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/plan-continuation-bias.md)
- [Vasa Syndrome: Insights from a 17th-Century New-Product Disaster](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/kessler-bierly-gopalakrishnan-2001.md) (paper)