MORE FINDINGS: This previous find, which was presented in the documentary series for Dplay and Monster, was not mentioned in the official reports of the shipwreck. Photo: DPLAY
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Two previously unknown cracks have been found on the shipwreck “Estonia”, the Estonian Accident Investigation Board confirms to the news agency TT.
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The ferry sank when it was on its way across the Baltic Sea from Tallinn in Estonia to Stockholm in 1994. 852 passengers lost their lives in the shipwreck. Since then, the ferry and most of the passengers have been buried on the seabed.
Survivors and survivors have been left with many questions in the years since.
A Swedish and an Estonian ship have since 9 July participated in new investigations of the wreck. Data on the shipwreck and the bottom conditions have been collected with sonar and sonar equipment.
The Estonian Accident Investigation Board has now confirmed to the news agency TT that two hitherto unknown cracks have been found on the hull of the ship. The cracks are 10-15 meters long.
The instrument that will take the detailed pictures of the cracks is a Mesotech Scanning Sonar. Brian Abbot, a world leader in technology, has struggled to get to Estonia due to the pandemic. But now he is in place to steer the instrument, and the first legal dives around the shipwreck are now being carried out 27 years after the accident, writes Aftonbladet.
Jonas Bäckstrand in the Accident Investigation Board Norway tells TT that the discovery is interesting, but that there is a risk that you over-interpret data before you have the whole picture.
– Therefore, we will be careful to draw some conclusions before our experts have collected all the data, he says.
Background: Found new Estonia mystery
The reason for the new dives is the findings that emerged in the documentary series “The Estonia discovery that changes everything”, which was broadcast on TV Norway and Discovery last autumn. Here a hole was discovered in the hull of the wreck that was not previously known.
—-IN COURT: Documentary filmmaker Henrik Evertsson had to appear in court in connection with the documentary series “Estonia – the discovery that changes everything”. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum
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Shortly after the premiere, the discovery provoked strong reactions, and led the Swedish authorities to reopen the investigation into the shipwreck.
Director Henrik Evertsson and ROV operator Linus Anderson were charged with breach of the peace after the dive. The Grave Peace Treaty is an agreement between several countries that prohibits private dives in the sinking area.
Evertsson and his team stayed acquitted of violating the peace of the Estonian shipwreck in Gothenburg District Court in February.
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