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Since Monday’s documentary “Estonia – the find that changes everything” revealed a 4 meter high and 1.2 meter wide hole in the starboard side of Estonia’s hull, it has created new questions for Estonian survivors in trouble.
– We don’t want speculation about whether it was a rock, a hole, or a collision. We were there, we heard explosions, he says in Helgstudion.
Survivor Sara: “We don’t want to believe anymore, we want to know”
852 people lost their lives in one of the worst shipwrecks in history. Sara Hedrenius is one of 137 people who survived.
– There are things that make it a hole, but there may also be other reasons. We don’t want to believe anymore, we want to know, says Sara Hedrenius.
And the revelation in 2004 that Estonia transported secret military equipment through an agreement between the Armed Forces and Swedish Customs, a task that was not included in the final report of the Accident Investigation Board in 1997, has meant that the Trust in the Swedish authorities is low.
– The hole is a fact. There is no doubt about it. Here we have information that really needs to be examined. And ambiguities with military transports are confirmed to have occurred, says survivor Anders Ericson who is also involved in Helgstudion.
Estonia has already started planning a new survey
– I mean there are Swedish authorities who deliberately withheld the information from the Accident Investigation Board when it happened, says Anders Ericson.
Estonia has already started planning a new underwater technical study of the wreck, but Sara Hadrenius does not believe that any of the affected countries will undertake the new investigation.
– It can be argued that it is not appropriate for Sweden, Estonia or Finland to carry out this investigation themselves. But it must be an independent investigation that is appointed, says Sara Hedrenius in Helgstudion.
