Andy_Ross
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Don't put words in my mouth. What I think likely happened is that the Swedish helicopter/s arrived promptly as commanded, as per protocol, as logged by Sweden MRCC operations at 0202, and advised to Silja Europa by Turku MRCC at 0227 that 'the Swedish helicopter will be here in ten minutes'. As these senior officers were billeted together in the forward cabins on decks 5 or 6, adjacent to the Voronins and the retired sea captain, who all escaped, no problem, thanks to being near the life-saving equipment and not needing to scramble up narrow stairwells, IMV some or all or all of them almost certainly survived. Ask yourself, how come the bodies the divers came across on the bridge or in the sixth deck and fourth/fifth deck cabins were never publicly identified because you can be sure the police and marine investigator bods will certainly want to know where each of the ship's officers were! It is not as if they were unidentifiable. So we can assume reasonably that these guys escaped together in a life boat, knew how to send SOS flares, attracted the attention of the first helicopter/s and were consequentially rescued, taken to Huddinge, as the Turku OHG Super Puma did not arrive until circa 0300 to bring people up to the decks of Silja, Symphony, Isabella and Mariella, so fly straight to Huddinge, Stockholm from where the nurse and doctor were picked up to return to the scene. Obviously, Svensson couldn't possibly know who he was rescuing in advance. Not his job.
Where did I put words in your mouth?
You claim there was a secret helicopter mission.
Why were the pilot and other crew ignored when it came to handing out medals?
How would the divers identify bodies? they don't know what the officers looked like. They could only get access to a small part of the ship, they weren't looking for bodies that had floated or washed away.