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Minutes in the Baltic: How MS Estonia Vanished with 852 Souls
Minutes in the Baltic: How MS Estonia Vanished with 852 Souls
The thought of a routine ferry crossing turning into the deadliest peacetime maritime accident in European waters since World War Two is unbearable: 989 people aboard at 01:22 on September 28, 1994, and 852 gone by morning after the ship sank in 28 minutes - but what single chain of small failures allowed this to happen? What was the moment the ship became impossible to save?
In this episode, we tell what the episode covers and why the sequence of events that night mattered: the ship's design as a ro-ro ferry, the severe storm with…
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