In 1994 the ro-ro cruise ship MS Estonia's sank and brought with it 93% of the one thousand passengers and crew. The Estonia tragedy is a story of cold war and deep state cover-up.
The official version. The ship sailed into a storm. The bow visor was knocked off by the waves, and the cargo ramp opened up, flooding the car deck. The ship sank in just over an 1 hour. A bunch of people died by an accident. The end.
The official version has several holes in it. Lately a four by one point two meter large hole, but before that some other ones. Let's look at what actually happened.
The true version. Weeks before the catastrophe, a Swedish customs officer had been ordered to not examine civilian cars rented by a Swedish military subcontractor on two previous occasions (14 and 8 days prior); an extraordinary measure which never had happened to him before nor since. He still peeked inside the trunk of the car and saw electrical military equipment in boxes.
Sacked MI6 spy Richard Tomlinson informed a New Zeeland investigative journalist that Swedish spy organization KSI (kontoret för särskild inhämtning), Estonian intelligence services and MI6 where smuggling ballistic missile components from ex-Soviet Union onboard MS Estonia. He claimed that Russians had warned first Estonian intelligence, and then MI6, to discontinue these operations or else...
At the day of departure, Estonian military personnel were (by two separate passengers) seen transporting equipment aboard MS Estonia.
Eventually the Russians followed through on their threat. At midnight September 28 the Russians rammed the civilian ferry, probably with a submarine, murdering 852 people.
At 00:02 or thereabout, two loud bangs and shrieks were heard and the ship immediately started tilting so heavily that an alarm clock fell off a table and into the floor and stopped. (The accident investigation board says the tilting started 12 minutes later.) The owner luckily tucked the clock into his pocket to clear the way when opening the door to exit his cabin.
The ship sank in 55 minutes. Most ships of this size, even with water-filled car decks, take a week to sink. Such as MS Jan Heweliusz 1.5 year prior. Neither did MS Estonia capsize, which is normal. Instead it sank. Sinking that quickly indicates no or only small air pockets in the ship. Even if car deck, and decks above would be flooded, the decks below would still hold air for a substantial amount of time, during which the vessel would still float. Releasing the 18,000 cubic meters of air below car deck that quickly requires a hole.
The last two surviving crew fled in the last minute when the ship almost had flipped 90 degrees to its side. Just before that they saw via car deck cctv facing the bow that the cargo ramp was still up and only sporadic gusts of water were pushed in on the sides.
The first official diving expedition took place four days after the catastrophe. Upon arrival they found the cargo ramp open, with the railing cut off, lying on the bottom. Who had been there before to pry the ramp open and fetch the classified equipment from car deck?
Swedish documents to a large extent were classified. Which is weird. Why would you classify information on a civilian vessel unless there were military secrets involved? The accident investigation board claimed no hole were required for the ship to sink so fast, they disregarded all witness testimony, and worked for years solely on the hypothesis that the cause was that both bow visor and cargo ramp failed. And -- guess what -- that's what they concluded!
Swedish politicians, journalists and even scientists willingly agreed with this preposterous idea, and went on to vilify the sane people who objected. (The same has happened many times, the latest example in 2020 is the migration problem and flood of crime in Sweden.) Fake news.
The distinguished shipyard who built the ship made their own investigation and their conclusion was that there had to be a hole in the hull. An American millionaire did another investigation, which was
sabotaged by Swedish, American and UK governments.
MS Estonia was quickly declared a grave site, and the Baltic Sea nations signed a treaty to enforce it as such. Curiously the UK
also signed the same treaty, despite having no part of the Baltic Sea. Think MI6. Swedish authorities has since prosecuted several explorations for trying to find the truth out there.
One survivor went so far as to rent a ship to fetch the body of his girlfriend, a couple of days before it were to be declared a grave site, but a Swedish towing ship was stationed there and stirred up the waters with their side-pointing propellers as they arrived. Even though stirring up waves toward another ship is prohibited by international law. The Swedish state went to great lengths to prevent anyone from coming near the site, even before it became a grave. The man had to abandon his girlfriend's body down there.
After a two years, in 1996, the cover-up turned literal when the Swedish state paid for pouring 10,000 tonnes of stone over the ship! Which they did! After public outcry they stopped the plans to cast the whole thing in concrete. This is the only time in history where a state tried to literally cover a sunken ship.
No-one raised any eyebrows in Sweden. The unfathomable trust in the state in those days were top-notch among Swedes.
In the year 2000, the American millionaire mentioned earlier went on a filming expedition where they found a hole in MS Estonia, but stones and gravel were covering most of it. The find was deemed unimportant by Swedish journalists and politicians.
No filming or examining of the hull worth mentioning took place until 2019. MS Estonia lies on its starboard side on top of 10 meters of soft clay. In the 26 years its been down there, it has turned turned another 15 degrees in the clay, making a huge hole and depression visible on its starboard side (despite all the stones dumped on the site).
The hole is 4 meters high and 1.2 meters in width. There are no stones on the clay bottom which could have made this hole underneath the cruise ship. The attacking vessel had to apply at least 500 metric tons of pressure to create the hole.
The then-prime minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, was a friend of head of spy ops (KSI), Bertil Lundin, and authored his obituary in SvD (one of Swedens biggest papers). Bildt was also the sponsor of MS Estonia as it was sold from a Finnish corporation to Estonia, and called it "the life-line to the west". The ship was given phony certificates to allow it to travel across the Baltic Sea. Rumors have accused Bildt of many things, including his oil company murdering civilians in Africa, as well as being a CIA spy. Who knows. Granted, it's probably normal for a Western head of state to cooperate with MI6. But to cover it up when it results in the largest maritime civilian mass-murder in history just to save your own skin?
Swedish Maritime Administration's bureau director, Stefan Torssell, claims this is a
cover-up from start to finish. As much is obvious by now, even to me. If you speak Swedish I can't enough recommend the documentary
Estonia - the find which changes everything!
The findings of the new documentary was offered to the Swedish government. Do you think they accepted? Of course not! MS Estonia's demise is the worst maritime catastrophe after the Titanic. And as such it is the tip of the iceberg of abuse of human rights (even if it is the worst). I just hope the goat-fucker Bildt gets what's coming to him in this lifetime.
