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Meyervarvet drawing of M / S Estonia viewed from the side.
M / S Estonia’s new fender outriggers would give the ferry a smoother ride at sea, but they have been noted to have a connection to the accident.
The theories put forth are that the bow visor, or a submarine, must have hit the fin and that this would have resulted in the hole in the hull.
But documentaries now claim that the fence stabilizer described as missing remains close to the hole.
Just a few months before the ferry disaster, M / S Estonia was commissioned at a shipyard in Naantali, Finland, in January 1994.
The ship’s two outriggers were then exchanged for a pair of modern, collapsible fin outriggers from a company in Scotland.
According to the official accident report, the survivors have recounted how the stabilizer on the port window got stuck when Estonia was lying on its side in the sea.
M / S Estonia installed new fence stabilizers in early 1994.
The fin outriggers can be folded out of the boat in stormy weather to keep the boat running smoother on the lake.
But no one has seen the starboard window stabilizer.
– It has been described as absent and there has been some ambiguity about it, says Olle Rutgersson, Estonian expert and professor of shipbuilding technology.
The mystery of the fen stabilizer has given rise to various theories over the years.
That an air pocket would have formed in the bow visor that floated shortly after it was released and then hit the starboard fin stabilizer which was damaged and in turn pierced the hull.
That a submarine ran over the fen stabilizer and thus also damaged the Estonian hull, causing the rapid sinking process.
But now the theories are crumbling.
Discovery documentaries that submerged with an underwater robot in the wreck claim that the starboard window stabilizer was clearly visible during the Estonian film investigation.
– The stabilizer fin is a little lower (the hole, editor’s note) and we saw it too. It was embedded, says Linus Andersson, an expert in underwater studios and who participated in the recording.
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Director and journalist Henrik Evertsson.
Director and journalist Henrik Evertsson, who is behind the eye-opening documentary series, says the stabilizer fins weren’t damaged and that they chose to focus on the most damage to the hull during cutting.
– We have a lot of cut film and we have concentrated on this great significant damage that could not be explained directly and is what we have worked with and analyzed by experts, he says.
Olle Rutgersson is surprised that the fence stabilizer is recessed in Estonia right now.
– Strange that it’s recessed. They should have been rushed, but it is not really known what happened in the final stage, if perhaps it was rushed automatically in connection with the shutdown of machinery, he says.
He has said during the week that he believes the hole emerged relative to Estonia hitting bottom, and he stands by his theory.
– If the boat has hit a boat, all the weight has been taken in the middle, where the clay layer is only four to five meters. Then there has been such an injury that it has remained in the background. And since you’ve never seen it, he says.
Photo: BJÖRN EWENFELDT / TT
Olle Rutgersson, Estonian expert and professor of shipbuilding technology.
Photo: Anders Wiklund / TT
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