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The case of the sinking of the Estonia is to be reopened. This was decided September last year and the new investigation begins on Thursday 8 July 2021. Several investigators, including engineers and marine experts will be taking a boat out to the stricken ship which lies 74m to 85m underwater on the seabed. There were talks of covering it with concrete or granite rocks after the accident, but this was rejected. This means the investigation teams will be disturbing the final resting place of over six hundred people, so various memorial services from the neighbouring countries will be held in honour of them on the 9th July 2021.
The original May Day call can be heard here:
28th September, 1994, the cruise ferry ship, MS Estonia, on its way from Tallinn to Stockholm, suddenly sank in the early hours of the morning. The Baltic Sea was rough but that was not something the crews were not used to. A May Day distress call went out as the ship listed to its side and then sank bow down stern up. It was carrying 889 passengers and crew, of which 138 were rescued, another 121 or so bodies were recovered, whilst the remaining 630 who drowned remain in entombed in their watery grave, 41 km from the Finnish island of Ütö, although the waters themselves are international waters. Most of the victims were Swedes and Estonians, with a few other nationalities, including ten Finns.
The official inquiry concluded that the cause of the accident was that the bow doors to the parking area for cars and lorries had come unhinged, allowing sea water to seep in, when it eventually fell off. Survivors report hearing a bang. A treaty between several countries was signed that it was unlawful for anyone to approach the spot where the stricken vessel lies, and it is regularly patrolled by coastguards. One country which did not sign the treaty was Germany.
One day, a couple of investigative German journalists engaged a boat to approach the MS Estonia, they dived below the waves and took pictures. They discovered something staggering: there was a large hole at the side of the ship. This has led to speculation that the disaster was caused by a submarine crashing into it, or one of the lorries, which included Russian military equipment, said to be sneaking secret weapons out of Russia, was the cause, i.e., some kind of explosive. The Germans involved are likely to be arrested and charged if they ever set foot in Sweden.
The new investigation is thanks to the revelations of this German team, as exposed in the Discovery documentary.
Location of MS Estonia here.
One of the survivors was an English guy, Paul Barney, and he tell his amazing story here:
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The original May Day call can be heard here:
28th September, 1994, the cruise ferry ship, MS Estonia, on its way from Tallinn to Stockholm, suddenly sank in the early hours of the morning. The Baltic Sea was rough but that was not something the crews were not used to. A May Day distress call went out as the ship listed to its side and then sank bow down stern up. It was carrying 889 passengers and crew, of which 138 were rescued, another 121 or so bodies were recovered, whilst the remaining 630 who drowned remain in entombed in their watery grave, 41 km from the Finnish island of Ütö, although the waters themselves are international waters. Most of the victims were Swedes and Estonians, with a few other nationalities, including ten Finns.
The official inquiry concluded that the cause of the accident was that the bow doors to the parking area for cars and lorries had come unhinged, allowing sea water to seep in, when it eventually fell off. Survivors report hearing a bang. A treaty between several countries was signed that it was unlawful for anyone to approach the spot where the stricken vessel lies, and it is regularly patrolled by coastguards. One country which did not sign the treaty was Germany.
One day, a couple of investigative German journalists engaged a boat to approach the MS Estonia, they dived below the waves and took pictures. They discovered something staggering: there was a large hole at the side of the ship. This has led to speculation that the disaster was caused by a submarine crashing into it, or one of the lorries, which included Russian military equipment, said to be sneaking secret weapons out of Russia, was the cause, i.e., some kind of explosive. The Germans involved are likely to be arrested and charged if they ever set foot in Sweden.
The new investigation is thanks to the revelations of this German team, as exposed in the Discovery documentary.
Location of MS Estonia here.
One of the survivors was an English guy, Paul Barney, and he tell his amazing story here:
