Ivar Treffner News Today

A twin-engined WW2 military aircraft has been found in Estonia’s Gulf of Livonia in the Baltic Sea. Lying in two parts, with its tail section detached from

Researchers from the Estonian Maritime Museum (Eesti Meremuuseum) are three-dimensionally modeling a wreck found in 2015 in Tallinn Bay. The work should help to shed light on vessels which plied their trade to and from Tallinn in the early modern era.

The government has agreed to allocate € 3 million to the investigation of the MS Estonia shipwreck on the seabed, but exactly what and how it will be investigated is not yet clear. The government has given the Estonian Safety Investigation Bureau the task to prepare for an underwater forensic investigation to start after Finland and Sweden have changed their laws, which currently ban diving to the wreck. The Maritime Academys in-service training centers manager Ivar Treffner told ERR that a p...