Holy sh** that mayday call always makes me so anxious and get goosebumps....

I've long been fascinated by the disaster. One of the most interesting things is to listen to the full audio recordings between the different vessels. Thank you for covering this story. You did a beautiful job!

If interpol wanted, Avo Piht would be found. Also Sweden's suspicious lack of showing effort to investigate and avoidance to let relatives know more about what happened. This wasn't just a tragedy. Criminal activity was definitely involved in this

The memory of the disaster still brings tears to my eyes. I vividly recall the day after when a heavy, painful silence was everywhere. People were glued to their TV screens, hoping to find their loved ones' names on the "survivors" list.

What bothers me most is that the bodies weren't recovered. Especially when it's in diving depths for a recovery ! I wish they would just raise it ! Been following this for years and always looking for new info when I return here to see or read new videos.

The presentation was excellent with this, hats off to you. Hopefully, in the future, a better picture is made of what occured.

Wonderfully presented. I don't think I've seen a video in English before that discusses the conspiracy theories as well. I hope the new investigations manage to be more transparent and bring us a conclusion that the survivors and the family members can accept as truthful. Even though I don't believe in conspiracy theories, I do find them interesting. I think the original investigation and government reactions only fulled them. Like not wanting to do any recovery, trying to cover the ship in concrete, preventing any divings, and not admitting to the weapons trasportation until ten years later. And then the new discovery of a hole on the hull. No wonder people don't trust the original accident report.

As a Swede I cannot begin to describe how deeply this disaster hit our country. (And tbh I'm quite dissapointed how little it is covered outside of the affected countries, few modern sinkings can really compare.) For example; I was 7 years old when this happened. Two major things happened that year. One was the sinking of Estonia. The other was the worst (and probably only) mass shooting in the history of Sweden. One of those things happened in my hometown, while I was sleeping in my bed 10 minutes away. I have no memory of this. I do, however, remember the look on my mothers face when she told me about Estonia. I remember going to school that day and everyone crying. I remember trying to grasp with my childish mind how so many people could die in such a short time. I remember it like the trauma it was, despite not even knowing anyone aboard. I've seen many tragedies in my life. I've seen the tsunami. I've seen the world trade center. And I've seen wars and ethnic cleanings. And although they are obviously far worse, nothing has stuck with me like this memory. Because for a 7 year old little girl seeing your whole country this traumatized... It sticks. And I hope that one day the truth will come out and the victims will get peace. Because the memory of realizing that your government that you fully trusted were lying about this the whole time. The memory of loosing that trust. That memory is almost just as horrible.

Without even seeing this video in full, I already know the story and it is endlessly interesting. So happy that you covered it!

Excellent video and narration! I think there's some new series of this in the works...?

All this never ending speculation is cause JAIC was too subtle towards the Estonian shipping company. It's in the final raport but they didn't point it out. Ship should have been send to repair dock for visir and ramp repairs long time before sinking. They had had problems with the visor and ramp locks and watertightness long before the sinking.

I would love this kind of content on Spotify, so I could listen to it on my walks and runs.

- in 1990-1991, Estonia went by the name Silja Star, where my father worked - Silja Star drove "too hard" in the waves, the bow gate was damaged and water flooded the car deck "almost up to the knees" - the ship had to be repaired at the shipyard for about a month, my father also got extra paid leave - note that this happened 3-4 years before the sinking of the ship in question! - at that time, the staff often passed through the car deck, so everyone knew about it - documents, interviews, experts claim that there was never a fault/problem with the bow gate before - most parties claim that in 1994, this bow port thing came as a complete surprise - it is 100% certain that Silja Star's temporary removal of traffic and the repair of the bow gate is documented - are there similar documents already from the time of Viking Sally (same ship), I don't know, since it hasn't been clarified - enormous resources have been used to search for the fault and the cause, even though the matter has been known to everyone - many high-level people have presented even wild theories as to the cause of the sinking - is it not really understood that the same, known fault, has been repeated several times? - The staff of Silja Star was never interviewed, neither before nor after the disaster in Estonia - the ship sailed as Viking Sally from 1980-90, the staff were never interviewed, to find out the origin of the leak - An interview with Sally's people would have either solved the matter, or moved the investigation in the direction of Silja Star's staff - neither of the above happened - every worker could have told if there was water on deck or not, and if so, how often/how much - 1 public figure has voluntarily told, while working on Sally, that there were problems with the bow gate

It's been 29 years now... I was only 5 years old, and in daycare at the time. But I do still vaguely remember this, somehow. Took me a little while to get over my fear of cruise ships, after that.

Chocking and sad story, thanks for sharing

Remember that horror. Let me throw some conspiracy. A colleague of my mother was saved from the catastrophe. She said (which also might be just a rumour) that she saw how the captain was running away at the start. It's unfortunate happening. Very mysterious and “undiscoverable”. A few days later, a Russian submarine was in some docks with renovations after collision with something.

I was going to work , 120 km drive , early on the morning when I heard insident. Very interesting torpedohit in that weather. And Vikings very new ship has similar damage but that forward ramp does not drop away. All ships that area in that storm get some damage. I do not know truth but torpedo in that water is very interesting issue.

The idea that the supposedly air-filled sections of Estonia below the car deck would've been enough to keep the 15000-tonne ship afloat is preposterous. The ship was upside down, many cabin windows had been broken by the waves, and water was rushing in through the open car deck ramp. Estonia sank stern first, like an upright glass being placed into a deep kitchen sink full of water. I do agree that the investigative authorities handled communications poorly, which lead to the disaster becoming a hotbed of conspiracy theories.

A deep Hole or crack discovered by Henrik Evertsson in 2020 is exactly same place which was calculated by a group of ship engineers led by shipbuilder Anders Björkman almost 28 years ago. björkman said "there must be a hole on rigt side under the water line " near sauna and swimmingpool area . anders björkman was absolutely right. 27 years ago without seeing any hole just by calculating only !!!

Thanks, very interesting!

I never believed that the sinking of the Estonia i was a normal accident. Its a coverup for shure.

I was 9 years old, when M/S Estonia sank.

I believe it. It's long been a topic of contention with the government's/families.

interesting is that they didint know what happened, surley they haved seead that bow viser come off, but when the list was 20 30 degree the still didint know what happened. so the visire was on

I think I know what happened. They tried to make a stop in Finland, not realizing that it's just a myth and sailed off the edge of the world.

Definitely a cover-up... either it was sank by accident or on purpose, we will never know but I hope the truth will be told some day. Just too many official answers missing.

Conspiracy theories are usually disproven in almost all cases. If there was a cover-up, the truth would most likely have leaked out by now. Investigating the accident was expensive and complicated, but the technology is better today.

Case of captain Piht. All started from small Estonian news paper what told he was alive. Lot of bigger media outlets share this same info but shortly removed it because it turned out to be false. This is how consipiracy theory starts. I did my study years ago and this is what i found. The story goes that Piht was brought to Utö with the first survivors. That can't be true because the first rescued people were transported to car ferries, of which there were already several. Wikipedia also says that "the information was confirmed by a Swedish helicopter pilot." It is the Swedish Navy's helicopter Y-64 and its surface rescuer Kenneth Svensson. According to him, he has never recognized Pihti and the claim in question is the reason for early and hasty press reports. That's how the legend began to live. According to another website, Piht's wife had received "official information" from the Swedish authorities that, "Avo Piht was taken aboard the rescue helicopter Q97 on the night of September 28, and was delivered in full strength at 4:20 a.m. to Finland to the island of Utö." According to the carefully documented accident report, the Swedish Super Puma helicopter Q 97 took off from Visby, Gotland at 2:50 a.m. and arrived one hour later, i.e. at 3:50 a.m., at the accident site, picked up 6 people (none of them was Avo Piht) from two overturned lifeboats and flew them to Utö, where the helicopter arrived at 5:00 a.m. . In this case, the timestamps do not match.

Scary

Quite simply... Yes

This reminds me of TWA 747 that blew up over Long Island the authorities said it was a wire arching in fuel tank and causing fuel vapor to explode . Years later investigators want it reopen as there is truth to witneses on the ground and in the air of missiles launched hitting the plane

Always wondered why they covered the wreck with concrete. Covering a different reason for the disaster could be case?

I think the official version of the accident is actually the true story, it's what makes mostly sence to me, like as example I don't think a u-boat would have managed to sink such a huge ferry. But I definitely think it's possible there where some skummy things happening on Estonia too, like smuggling of military equipment.

Thanks again mate👍Great job❤

The ship hit something. They know the truth. Cover it up.

That hole can just be the visor hitting the side

Whoever is calling the mayday sounds untrained. I understand the chaos happening, but he could have been a bit more together, IMO....