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M / S Estonia has more injuries than those that appeared in the documentary Discovery.
According to the production team, it is a hole one decimeter wide, which probably happened when the ferry hit the bottom.
– This is a little cracking further back, says director Henrik Evertsson.
The revelation of a four-meter-high hole in the hull of the M / S Estonia has sparked debate for several weeks.
Now comes information about another injury, which was not reported in the documentary series.
Information about a second injury was revealed as early as October in the Estonian media, where a naval expert voiced some criticism that the injury was not reported in the documentary series.
Director Henrik Evertsson says the production team did not include the smallest hole in the documentary for journalistic reasons.
– What we have done is an initial investigation within the framework of a journalistic project. We are not an accident commission and we have never said that it is. The large hole could not be explained directly, it was so large, so it needs to be examined further. The small hole could be explained as a tension load that may have arisen when the ship hit the bottom or during the sinking, says Henrik Evertsson.
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Henrik Evertsson, director.
“Small damage”
Underwater expert Linus Andersson operated the diving robot during the recording and says the damage in question is roughly 80 times 20 centimeters in size.
– It is a small injury that I and several experts have judged to be a fairly insignificant load injury. It looked like completely natural load damage due to the tensile force that occurred when there was strong torque. So you can get a crack like this.
– It seems natural and is what you can expect when such forces are in motion.
Both Henrik Evertsson and Linus Andersson emphasize that they have allowed Estonian government officials and experts, who accepted a preview, to participate in the film material with the smallest hole.
– We showed it to them and from what I understood, they made the same assessment as us. That this was not very interesting compared to the great damage, says Linus Anderson.
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