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Diver Stewart Rumbles participates in the new documentary “Estonia: the discovery that changed everything”.
There he tells how on a Swedish assignment the wreck was mapped in December 1994, and how shocked the divers were when the Swedish authorities forbade them to take care of the bodies, even though they could easily have salvaged at least 125.
Sealed Holes Now Open
He and the other divers from the Norwegian-British diving company Rockwater welded two holes in the wreck so they could enter and investigate. After completing the mission, they sealed the holes. But the new documentary shows that these holes are open today.
– I can guarantee I closed the hole. Someone must have been there after us, Stewart Rumbles tells Aftonbladet.
– I sealed the first hole and the second was made by a team after me, I’m one hundred percent sure of that, he says.
Closed with iron grid
He says he closed the hole with an iron lattice that was hooked with strong zip ties. The second hole was closed with the originally cut piece of iron.
Now you see the open holes in the documentary and that the gratings and the piece of iron remain on the wreck. It must mean someone was there and cut the cable ties, you think.
The two Swedes, director Henrik Evertsson and underwater expert Linus Andersson, who were aboard the dive boat when documentaries examined the wreck, were charged with violating the peace of the tomb.
No new research
The documentary reveals that there is a new unknown hole in the ship.
Prosecutor Helene Gestrin, who is behind the indictment, tells Aftonbladet that it is not relevant to try to investigate who got into the old holes.
Stewart Rumbles says in the documentary that the divers could easily have dealt with at least 125 bodies.
“We were shocked”
– We saw bodies that had gotten stuck, people who had tried to escape through the doors. Some in bathrobes who had run out of their cabins. We pass them one by one, he says and continues:
– I always had it in the back of my mind: We are here, why can’t we save them? All it took was a phone call, someone to say, “Yes, let’s get all the bodies here.” Why not? We were surprised.
Sara, 48, survived Estonia, now she wants the government to act: “You must deal with this now.”
