How the Sinking of MS Estonia Changed Passenger Ships Forever
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MS ESTONIA was a passenger cruise ship and ferry that sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994.
The ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea in less than an hour in 1994. 852 people died in the tragedy, the causes of which are still debated.
On the night of September 28, 1994, a ship disappeared in the Baltic Sea. 852 people disappeared with the ship. But for some people, the disappearance was not easy. First, their names appeared on the lists of those rescued. Then they disappeared from the lists. And finally, they became dead. But the questions remained. For some names, the documentary trail is clearer, for others it is vaguer. For some people, there was talk of being rescued, for…
Today, 31 years ago, the ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea between 0.55 and 2.03 am. The ship was on its way from Tallinn to Stockholm with 989 people on board. Of those on board, 137 were rescued, 852 people died. The bodies of only 95 of the dead were found. The Estonia disaster is the highest casualty of a peacetime shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. Marika Toom wrote on Facebook and also told Postman how she was paid to remain silent. [...]
When the ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea on the night of September 28, 1994, questions also began to be asked of Meyer Werft, the shipyard in Germany where the Estonia had been built almost 15 years earlier. The company has insisted for decades that it did nothing wrong and bears no responsibility for the disaster. But an official investigation says otherwise.
This ship was Estonia's pride. The nine-deck high-rise giant sailed from most recently Soviet Tallinn to shiny capitalist Stockholm, and it carried a full range of pleasures that were not yet familiar to former Soviet citizens, from duty free shops to a sauna, a disco and a cinema. On a September night in 1994, another and seemingly ordinary flight ended in what was the biggest tragedy of its kind in Europe. We are telling the story of the Eston…
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