20 years have passed since M/S Estonia sank due to hull leakage below waterline 28 September 1994 probably due to sabotage. The ship carried military cargo protected by Swedish police and military aboard. The ship was not seaworthy at departure due to lack of correct lifesaving equipment and watertight hull subdivision. A false cause of incident was invented; a weak bow visor that dropped off. The cover-up of the incident is a success.
852 persons drowned and died. We are told!
Immediately, without any evidence, the Estonian, Finnish and Swedish authorities concerned announced that the defective bow visor had caused the accident. Waves had knocked off the visor at sea and had pulled open a ramp so that sea water had flooded the superstructure 2.5 meters above waterline and the crew had heard nothing. As a result the ship capsized ... and sank.
The bow visor was a forward moving part of the ship superstructure high above waterline to keep the ferry looking nice. The ferry could have sailed around without bow visor but with closed ramp and nothing would happen.
But the Estonian, Finnish and Swedish authorities told the world that the accident was caused by the bow visor! Big waves had ripped apart the visor locks and the visor had fallen off the ship. Nobody heard anything.
I have tested with my own ferries what happens if you impact a big wave in severe weather. Every impact against the fore ship is extremely loud (>130 dB) and the whole ship vibrates afterwards and everybody is awake and wonders what is going on. You have to slow down! The impact is due to compressed air trapped between ship and wave. The impact force itself is nominal and of very short duration. The responsible parties just made up a false story. Like the RMS Titanic 1912 sinking explained 2013. No iceberg.
It seems that the bow visor had nothing to do with the accident, as it was simply removed from the wreck under water a few days after the sinking by Swedish naval forces supported by the Finns - so you could blame the accident on the bow visor.
It explains all official lies and false information about the sinking presented 1994-2013. To support the official lies many rescued Estonian crew members were kidnapped and reported as dead by the Finnish authorities in charge. Other Estonian crew members were forced to lie about what happened. Later it was established that the Swedish government used the vessel to carry ex USSR arms from Estonia to Sweden to be forwarded elsewhere.
All information was then falsified 1994-1997 to support the official story about the visor. One reason was to hide the simple basic fact that the ferry M/S "Estonia" was unseaworthy, with incorrect hull subdivision against sinking, with too many open, watertight doors, with incorrect life saving equipment based on the fact that 50% of all aboard was assumed to jump into the water (!), consequently no evacuation drills were never done, false certificates were issued, etc., etc.
And had the ship really capsized due to water loaded in the superstructure, it would have been floating upside down ... and not had sunk. The ship sank due to leakage below waterline.
Below book (1998), given to every Swedish MP in March that year, finally responsible for safety at sea in Sweden, was quitely ignored by them, like later books by the author - Katastrofutredning (2000), Disaster Investigation (2001) and Estoniabluffen (2003).
The technical investigations continued 2006 - one Estonian government commission and one Estonian parlamentary commission were reviewing old false information and new proven facts provided by, i.a. the writer and reportet end 2006 and early 2009; two international research consortia were investigation how the M/S Estonia actually sank based on all now available information, i.a. this writer's - here, here - May 2008; the Swedish Criminal Analysis Laboratory at Linköping, Sweden, investigated whether original underwater films have been tampered with and reported and finally a number of independent researchers continue their serious work and report regularly, e.g. on the Internet.
None of these bodies are considered as 'conspiracy theorists' as previously announced by the Swedish authorities. It should be quite clear that all doubts about the official visor announcements 1994-1997 are today well founded ... but not politically correct. It is a mystery. Why support a false cause of accident? Strangely enough public media do not follow up. Latest news 2014 are found here!
