Doomed 16th-Century Warship Yields Secrets with New 3D Models

In 1545, when the English warship Mary Rose capsized as it led an attack on a French invasion fleet, it sank so quickly that most of the 400 crew and soldiers on board drowned. "Obviously, the carpenter on a wooden warship is a very important person," said Nick Owen, a biomechanist at Swansea University in the United Kingdom and one of the leaders of the study. Owen's research includes using techniques from sports science to study the remains of the Mary Rose crew.