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The shipwreck, on September 28, 1994, with its 852 deaths, is the largest in Europe in modern times.
On Friday, the Swedish Accident Investigation Board will send a request to the government to change the law that currently makes diving off the wreck a crime, Ekot learns.
– I can’t say much about it today. But we think we can come out with more information on that topic tomorrow afternoon, says Jonas Bäckstrand, Deputy Director General of the Swedish Accident Investigation Board, to Ekot.
Expressen has spoken with the head of the Estonian Accident Investigation Board, Jens Haug, who has not participated in the Ekot reports.
Can you confirm that new dives will be requested at the wreck?
– I can’t confirm anything. It’s late at night, thanks for calling, says Jens Haug.
The documentary revealed a previously unknown hole in the ship’s hull.
Following this fall’s acclaimed documentary “Estonia: The Finding That Changes Everything”, the Accident Investigation Board launched a new investigation in Estonia, and cleaned up old documents and documents, in light of the film’s revelation of a hole previously unknown on the ship’s hull.
Since then, it has emerged that there is another hole that was not reported by the documentaries. The Estonian bow visor films have been re-analyzed and the Commission has also met with the surviving passengers.
After two months of investigation, the Accident Investigation Board has decided that new dives should be made at the ship’s sinking site in the Baltic Sea, Ekot learns.
Jonas Bäckstrand: “Too early to draw conclusions”
Jonas Bäckstrand does not want to confirm that a request to break the peace on the shipwreck will be sent to the government tomorrow, but says investigators have been full.
– It’s too early to draw conclusions. But we have looked at both the new and old movies that were made when the wreck was examined in 1994. We have collected a lot of information about the accident, Jonas Bäckstrand tells Ekot.
