The Mariella docked into Stockholm, whereupon it was boarded in Swedish waters by police who flew in by helicopter.
"... The police ordered all 25 (sic) survivors to be locked up in a separate area of the ship. They were forbidden to communicate with other passengers, even if many survivors wanted to have contact with them. The police and guards from the ship maintained strict control of the rooms with the survivors. If they wanted to go to the toilet ... they were escorted by the guards.
The survivors were partly questioned by the police already aboard the 'Mariella'. Some were not permitted to telephone their relatives, when they so wished, they had to ask permission. Some were only granted one telephone call. Before the called they were forced to reveal the name and civic ID number of the person they wanted to call. ...
When later the survivors arrived at the port of Värtan ... they had to wait until the 'Mariella' was emptied of normal travellers. The police wanted to prevent mutual contact using all means. ... Thure Palmgren ... was not permitted to leave the group. Swedish police forced him violently into the bus against his will. He (Palmgren) said to me that he had never been so angry and upset. Some of the survivors considered that the police committed a crime, i.e. illegal arrest.
When all survivors had been transported to the Söder hospital they were all locked up in wards. Police guarded the doors. When one of the survivors wanted to leave the ward, he was forced back in a very unfriendly manner ..."
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Jörle-Hellberg
Why would it require a 'vast conspiracy'? Fact is, these people were listed as survivors and no explanation has ever been given for their removal from the lists. Given this was put in the public domain, there should be some kind of retraction or correction.
They were brought in by Y64 and Mariella.
Why would Mariella go to Sweden when the rescue was under Finnish jursidiction? Well we know Piht seems to have ended up in Turku and then Helsinki.
Mariella didn't receive any survivors from helicopters, one injured survivor was picked up from Mariella by the Finnish helicopter X 92 for emergency transport to hospital by stretcher. One injured survivor was picked up from Isabella by Finnish helicopter X42 by stretcher.
These were both wire transfers as the ships were rolling too much for a landing.
Only two helicopters managed to land on ships to transfer survivors to them, they were both Finnish helicopters, OH-HVG got on to Symphony and OH-HVD got on to Europa.
After this it was too rough to land safely so all survivors were taken direct to shore, that is one of the reasons more helicopters were called in to the rescue.
Here are all the wire transfers.
Y 74 another Finnish helicopter lowered medical staff on to the Symphony by wire as it was too rough to land on the deck.
X 42 attempted to land seven men of the Turku city fire department aboard Europa to serve as rescue men but this was abandoned because the vessel was rolling so badly that it would have been dangerous to land on the helicopter deck. They therefore stayed with the helicopter all day as first-aid personnel.
X 62 In the late morning, attempted to land five physicians and six firemen and an air traffic control office aboard Europa however, it proved impossible to land, as the stern deck of the vessel was rising and falling about 10 metres at a time so they were winched down instead.
Y 65 rescue man got stuck on the winch rope when it jammed and had to be flown to the Europa where he was put on to the deck.
Y 75 lowered medical staff to the Symphony in the afternoon.
