No need for the willy waving! Size isn't everything (don'tcher know).

The Vasa recovery is undeniably impressive. My mum saw it in the 1980s when she picked up a Saab 99 from Sweden and brought it back to West Germany. Her report was very favourable about it.

Is it a little bit bizarre - Brits driving Swedish cars in the old FRG? Nope! The Saab 99 was a heavy beast and with snow tyres, could easily get up snowy slopes/roads that left BMWs and Mercs looking like expensive twits, parked on the corners of switchbacks up the mountains in Bayern. The Audi Quattro and later others sorted that problem out with 4WD. I still have a toy one given to me by a German on my 17th birthday.

I commend Herr Wurm to you (no longer with us).

In number of recovered artifacts (30,000+) and the size of the ship the Vasa is definitely the bigger find.

However, the Vasa was in much better condition and the recovery process went much smoother, so the recovery of the Vasa required "only" some 1500 dives (although some of them, like laying the supporting cables through the mud under the ship, were very dangerous and required skilled divers) as opposed to the 25,000+ dives required to recover the Mary Rose artifacts.