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
Crew Resource Mgmt
Local Rationality
Normalisation of Deviance (Challenger)
The Tenerife Disaster
Everest & PS
Plan Continuation Bias
Vasa Syndrome: Insights from a 17th-Century New-Product Disaster (paper)