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“Breaking overboard would require, for example, a small fishing boat to crash into the hull of a ferry at a speed of four knots,” he added.
According to M. Kurm, this excludes 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 must have been a collision with an object like a ship.” Mr Kurm pointed out that the perforated part of the hull was visible in 1994, but later the Swedish authorities flooded the sunken ship with gravel.
“It is very likely that the object found by Estonia was actually a submarine,” emphasized the former state prosecutor.
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 team of filmmakers of the five-series documentary Estonia: A Funnet Som Endrer Alt found a 4 meter diameter hole in the hull of a sunken ferry that had previously been partially hidden by the seabed, Postimees reported.
According to the Estonian Prime Minister, it was decided, together with Finland and Sweden, that Estonia will lead the new investigation, which will be carried out on the basis of the 1997 final report.
In September, the shots in question were reviewed by technicians, who stated that the board was hit from the outside and that the violations were not committed during the explosion.
We recall that on September 28, 137 people survived on the ferry and 852 died. Most of the dead were unable to escape when the ferry began to sink.
Findings from a study published by Estonia, Finland and Sweden in 1997 show that water began to flow inside the ship due to a failure in the car’s deck door.
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