Vixen's sole source for many of these EPIRB claims is a single article written for a Swedish publication 25 years after the fact. The author in turn gives no specific authority for most of the claims he makes, most notably the claim that Koivisto presented to the JAIC on the subject of the EPIRBs (and the whole basis for the claim of a missing report). The only allegedly documentary evidence is the frame-grab from Helsinki television, which simply shows Koivisto in the same room as an EPRIB—not the same model as used on MS Estonia, and not the ones recovered. The author names a few sources, but attributes to them only ephemeral tidbits. The principal source for his article is Margus Kurm: you know, the guy who thinks submarines can fly. Kurm is cited over and over in the article, which goes on to make quite a lot of the same insinuations as we've heard from the other Estonia conspiracy theorists.
Here's the thing :—
I know why Koivisto was in Helsinki and I know what subject he really presented on to JAIC. It's actually in one of Vixen's sources (no, not that guy). And no, it wasn't on the EPIRBs. No, Koivisto wasn't the only person presenting that day, and no he wasn't the only presenter in the room alongside the EPIRB.
This whole story is most likely dreamed up by Kurm from a single photograph that can be interpreted so many ways. And all he needed was a writer looking for some bombshell article.
Now let's see if Vixen is smart enough to go through all her sources (instead of repeatedly making false claims here) and prove she can actually absorb what they say. Let's give her, oh say, six months.
You are quite wrong in your
assumptions.
YLE svenska is a reputable broadcasting company not dissimilar in values and quality to the BBC. It is the state broadcaster. Its articles are all thoroughly fact-checked, run past lawyers, and are written by highly respected and qualified journalists. It is in no way sensationalist. It is a news channel. No adverts, no advertisers or sponsorships. No politically angled multi-millionaire non-domiciled owners purveying their own financial and political agenda. It is state-sponsored. So you are wrong again in your assumptions. Instead making assumptions perhaps look in to the facts.
You also made a previous assumption that Koivisto was just a businessman who had never actually served as a seaman. But in Finland it is that law that every man has to undertake military service (except for conscientious objectors, who can do a few months in jail instead). He supplies the military, specifically the navy. Of course he doesn't do interviews.
As for submarines: they are not always submerged. They can surface, you know. It is not just Kurm, it was that Norwegian professor as well and also Carl Rentheim a survivor who witnessed something moving away in the water. He is a diplomat. I suppose you are going to claim, that state prosecutors, academic professors and diplomats are all given to lying.
Kurm, so strongly does he believe facts were being withheld, that he, too, like reputable journalists, Jutta Rabe and Henrik Evertsson (quite independently of each other) actually got on a boat and sent down an ROV to collect information himself.
Kurm carried out an expedition around about the same time as the official (current) Arikas one. I don't know if his equipment was inadequate or he ran out of money, but his plan was to have the images analysed by some expert in Singapore. or thereabouts. Maybe he aborted the project or maybe he is waiting for Arikas to bring out his report first.
This is factual. Nothing to do with conspiracy.
