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Top wide: later that afternoon. Erik changed into navy sweater, brown beard, stands safely with Ronald and Tony looking at enormous pontoons. Work resumes in background. : Tony: After all that, how do you lift an entire ship? Erik: With those two pontoons.
Middle left: cutaway-style illustration of two pontoons floating above submerged brown Vasa hull with steel cables looping beneath it. Simple clear flat-color drawing, not map. : Erik, off panel: Steel cables pass under Vasa and up to the pontoons.
Middle right: close of pump outlet emptying water from pontoon into harbor. No people necessary. : Erik, off panel: Pump water out of the pontoons and they rise, lifting the ship with them.
Bottom wide: Tony looks back across water toward work crew; Ronald listens to Erik. : Tony: So the water helps lift her? Erik: Yes. But it has taken years of work to get this far.
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Top wide: later that afternoon. Erik changed into navy sweater, brown beard, stands safely with Ronald and Tony looking at enormous pontoons. Work resumes in background.
Tony: After all that, how do you lift an entire ship? Erik: With those two pontoons.

Middle left: cutaway-style illustration of two pontoons floating above submerged brown Vasa hull with steel cables looping beneath it. Simple clear flat-color drawing, not map.
Erik, off panel: Steel cables pass under Vasa and up to the pontoons.

Middle right: close of pump outlet emptying water from pontoon into harbor. No people necessary.
Erik, off panel: Pump water out of the pontoons and they rise, lifting the ship with them.

Bottom wide: Tony looks back across water toward work crew; Ronald listens to Erik.
Tony: So the water helps lift her? Erik: Yes. But it has taken years of work to get this far.