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The background to the decision is Discovery’s revelation that there are holes in the ship’s hull.
Tomorrow, the Swedish Accident Investigation Board will send a request to the government to amend the peace law on the ship to allow new dives.
The Accident Investigation Board does not want to comment on the information, nor does the government.
– We have no comment on this information, says Interior Minister’s SVT News press secretary Mikael Damberg.
Decision support
The decision is expected to have wide support among the public. Almost two out of three people in both Sweden and Estonia want to see new dives from the wreck. This according to two opinion polls that SVT was able to present this Thursday in collaboration with the Estonian media company Ekspress Meedia.
It is unclear how quickly the law may change and when the new dives will take place.
852 people died
The Estonian passenger ferry sank on September 28, 1994. The official report from 1997 indicated that there were no holes in the ship’s hull.
Of the 989 people on board, 852 people were injured. Only 137 people survived the disaster.
