Sweden To Allow Underwater Probe Of Estonia Wreck Site
Sweden to Allow Underwater Probe of Estonia Wreck Site Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. (Photo: Accident Investigation Board Finland) Sweden said on Friday it would allow an underwater examination of the ferry Estonia, which sank in the Baltic 26 years ago with the loss of 852 lives, after a documentary film showed previously unknown holes in the wreck's hull. The official investigation concluded in 1997 that the roll-on, roll-off ferry's bow shield had failed, damaging the bow ramp and flooding the car deck. However, a Discovery Network documentary shown earlier in the autumn about the disast...