Could you sum up in a few short sentences, what you believe happened with Estonia? I don't want to go through your whole page. And let's not hijack this thread. Just a short description. Do you believe it was a bomb, or what?
A passenger/cargo ferry sinks in 30 minutes and 852 dies in the Baltic 28.09.1994. Most survivors noticed a heavy impact around midnight Swedish time (01 hrs local time) - like Titanic colliding with an iceberg. A few minutes later the ferry rolls 30° port/starboard and people still awake in bars and casino and lose furniture are thrown around. Luckily the vessel regained stability with <15° list to starboard a minute later so that >300 persons could immediately evacuate to open decks 7 and 8 during 10 minutes - most of them to the port, upper side. After that the list was >40° and increasing so nobody could get out. Only three crew members did not evacuate at once! They returned to deck 1 at the bottom of the ship (engine control room) below waterline and reported various things, e.g. that water leaked into the ship at the forward bow ramp on deck 2 above waterline several minutes after the rolling and stable list <15° starboard. After 7-10 minutes they evacuated from deck 1 and two of them joined the other surviviors on the port, upper side. How they got there is a mystery (Actually, they never stayed down in the control room as they would have been trapped there. They had started the bilge pumps because the vessel was leaking under waterline and got out at once when the rollin started).
The ship had then 90° list at around 01.30 hrs local time - people were walking on the flat, port side - and most surviviors then jumped into the sea; some got into some life rafts on the side. A few minutes later the ship disappeared below the surface.
The authorities immediately announced that the visor protecting the bow ramp on deck 2 had fallen off and ripped the bow ramp fully open and that 1000's tons water had entered into the superstructure 2.5 m above waterline within a few minutes and caused the vessel to list to starboard.
Three years later the authorities concluded that faulty visor locks by incompetent engineers/workers had caused the accident. Otherwise the ship was in perfect shape with correct life saving equipment, etc. Big waves causing 100 tons sharp and loud impacts on the bow had ripped apart the locks and the visor had fallen off. (Falsified model tests were used to conclude that! Actually there were no wave impacts at all. The weather was not too bad).
That the three star witnesses had only seen a closed ramp had to be forgotten. Actually, their complete testimonies are faked several times.
So the ship sank with the visor attached. As the authorities had announced it had fallen off, they arranged that it was removed from the wreck under water using explosives, etc. Unbelievable? How did they do it? First they announced a false position of the wreck a mile east of the real wreck. Then they removed the visor and after that they salvaged the visor at the real wreck position. Later they said they had salvaged the visor a mile west of the wreck. And finally they announced the true wreck position.
What actually happened? The ferry apparently collided with a submarine stationary in the water and the starboard underwater side was damaged/pushed in in two locations - 100's tons/min water leaked in. This was the collision with the 'iceberg'. The inflowing water spread through open watertight doors and reduced the stability to zero causing the >30° rolling five minutes later. More water flowed in and stabilized the ferry, the list became <15° and people could get out.
Unfortunately the ferry lacked regulatory life saving equipment so all people had to jump into the water to survive. The ferry was a floating coffin. And it was also used to carry ex USSR military equipment as contraband to Sweden.
But this could not be admitted. So a cover up was arranged. It is quite easy. Just tell some corrupt civil servants and 'experts' to invent something. Like 9/11. Back to that subject!
