JayUtah
Penultimate Amazing
The JAIC final report lists five experts from Estonia, five from Finland, and three from Sweden. Assar Koivisto is not on that list. So now I wonder what the JAIC tasked him with, and why, and how we know that.
The JAIC report lists the committee members. The subject matter experts are generally not referenced in a final report, but will appear in supplementary reports.
The "German group of experts" reports as follows :—
4. PCIMA's expert in navigation electronic, Asser Koivisto, has met some Russians. They reported that a NAVISAILOR 2000 ECDIS chart system of Russian make had been installed on "Estonia" which registers the covered route, speed and the like. It is possible to take out data from the installation even after it has been in sea water for sometime. In case Sweden should decide for reasons of ship-technical investigations or for other reasons to have the wreck examined by divers, the above-mentioned installation should be brought up, according to Koivisto, the matter should be given a relatively high priority and should be speeded up.
This purports to be a fax sent from Kari Lehtola (chair of the Finnish JAIC contingent) to Olof Forssberg (the Swedish chair) on 14 October 1994 (about halfway down the page). Take the source with a grain of salt, since our German "experts" can't seem to figure out how to spell Mr. Lehtola's name right throughout their entire report.
Automated maritime navigation systems are within Koivisto's personal and corporate expertise.