Vixen, I am assuming (as you have quoted and cited it) that you have a copy of Nelson's book. Does Nelson claim to have interviewed either Vassili?
Well, we can scratch off yet another document as a possible source for the whole "Kosmos Association" spacecraft thing.
So eight years either way?
The 'spacecraft' bit was all Vixen. She misunderstood the phrase 'space technology'.
To be sure, the norm for a journalist writing a book on the history of an event is to footnote or endnote facts supplied by a witness with something like, “Interview 6 July 2010” or “letter dated 7 June 2010.” We’re told this is a “human interest” book, so in case the normal rules don’t apply in the case of a more dramatized account, maybe the moral is not to try to substantiate factual claims from a romance novel.
To feed the lizards.
Hey, more people might read it. And you might get a movie deal.
Enola Holmes and the Case of the Misaligned Gantry Trestle.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the crew drowned in the ship, or in the water. The senior crew members had important jobs, and were likely doing them, or trying to get to their station in a ship that had a dramatic list, and hundreds of panicking passengers. Survival depended on how fast one reached the boat decks.
In a conspiracy fantasy the obvious is the first thing to be rejected.
Obviously.
Not every book is an academic textbook. Nelson taught journalism at Uni California and Uni Utah, and has a further Masters in Creative Writing. It is similar in style to James Patterson's recent book on the Idaho 4, novel-style but based on true events and quoting real people. So there is no bibliography. He credits Valeria Kaspar , an Estonian documentary maker, plus he visited Estonia for a month for the purpose.
A high number of the survivors were the crew.
Useless as a source, then.
And Vashya is Vassili Voronin?
And the weird thing is, it was both suspiciously many and suspiciously few. Explain that, doubters.
Obvs. To add, the younger Vassili and the older Vassili, together with Alexander V., all survived...yet they all ended up on three separate rafts, the kid being hoist up by Silja and the other two eventually rescued by helicopter. So yeah, the senior crew and the two show girls initially listed as survivors were suddenly taken off the survivors list albeit their bodies never recovered..
Perhaps they were taken off the survivors list because they didn't survive.
How would they know that without a body? Survivors only got listed when they personally supplied their names to a designated rescuer personnel. Re the twins, someone gave the personnel her nickname, which wouldn't be the name on the staff register, so how did they get to be listed as survivors, together with Piht, when that didn't happen with any other survivor (i.e., an error)? Plus, remember Ken who rescued seven -as reported in early Swedish papers - which then was tallied down to one, and he got the highest military medal for it..? Could that six or seven be the 'missing crew'...?