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Estonia sank on September 28, 1994 during a severe storm in the Baltic Sea, sailing from Stockholm to Tallinn. Of the 989 passengers and crew on board, only 137 survived.
According to M. Kurmas, a drilled hole 4 m long and 1.2 m wide was found on the right side of the ferry; it is below the waterline, but it also reaches the car deck.
“I think it means that Estonia has come across something big enough that it could have pierced the case,” the expert told Postimees TV.
“Breaking overboard would require, for example, a small fishing boat to enter the hull of a ferry at a speed of four knots,” he added.
According to M. Kurm, this rules out the possibility that the broken panel collided with the hull of the ferry.
“In this case, this panel had to be 20 times bigger,” the expert noted. “It had to be a collision with an object like a ship.”
Photo by Scanpix / Ferry Estonia
According to the former head of the accident investigation commission, the part of the side where the hole was found never touched the seabed, so the hull could not have been damaged in this way.
M. Kurmas pointed out that the perforated part of the hull was visible in 1994, but later the Swedish authorities covered the sunken ship with gravel.
“It is very likely that the object found by Estonia was actually a submarine,” emphasized the former state prosecutor.
“The question is what this submarine did on the Estonian route. During that period, Swedish military exercises were held at the site. The second version, the submarine, blocked Estonia due to confidential information on board. I tend to think that the second version is correct, ”said the expert.
With the release of a new Discovery documentary on the sunken ferry, Estonian Prime Minister Yuri Rat announced on Monday that a new investigation into the circumstances of the disaster, led by Estonians, would be carried out as it came to light. new information.
The five-series documentary “Estonia: a find that will change everything” (norv. Estonia: the discovery that changes everything) after landing on a sunken ferry, a team of developers found a 4m diameter hole in its hull, which was previously partially hidden by the seabed, the Postimees newspaper reported.
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