MARS MAKALÖS, year fifteen hundred and sixty-four

It was the largest and fiercest warship in the world, named Mars after the Roman god of war. But it went up in a ball of flames during a brutal naval battle in 1564, consigning more than 800 Swedish and German sailors and a fortune in gold and silver coins to the bottom of the Baltic Sea. ​ Join our journey to the bottom of the sea. Support the development of cutting-edge maritime archeology by donation!