Published July 15, 2021 at 07.01
Domestic. On Wednesday, Estonia deployed a third ship and an underwater robot to film Estonia's wrecks, despite loud protests from Swedish authorities. Now the expedition has discovered that the bow ramp has been completely loosened – according to Evertsson's documentary – which means that any crimes committed on car tires in October 1994 can no longer be automatically linked to the Swedish Armed Forces.
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The Estonian ship VLT-089 has an underwater robot that is now filming the previously discovered cracks in the hull and objects on the bottom.
This work began on Wednesday and is expected to be completed on Thursday, according to DN.
– It has gone very well, and you are pleasantly surprised. The data at the test site is of good quality, says Jörgen Zachau, head of investigation for Estonia at the Swedish Accident Investigation Board, to the newspaper. reference to good visibility in the water.
The Swedish Accident Investigation Board tells TT that they have discovered stone around Estonia's wreck, and that the bow ramp has come loose from its hinges.
The bow ramp remained on the ship when the journalist Henrik Evertsson dived at the ship with an underwater robot in September 2019. p>
In October 1994, while the Swedish Armed Forces was monitoring the wreck, someone opened the ramp and then closed it behind him, during an operation that is officially denied by Swedish authorities. It is revealed that the railings that were mounted on the inside of the then almost completely closed ramp were filmed on the outside of the ship in October 1994.
A number of critics have demanded that the inside of the ramp be re-examined, and that the damage to railings and other things that reveal the intrusion are investigated. That investigation may be less valuable as evidence against the Armed Forces now that the ramp has been officially open even during a time when the authority did not have supervision over the wreck. Illegal damage or other crimes on car tires can thus no longer be automatically linked to the authority and its then management, who are still alive.