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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory On September 28, 1994, the Estonian passenger ship sank in the Finnish coast.
On September 28, 1994 (August 23), the passenger ship "Estonia" sank in Finland's offshore. The new soldiers of the Finnish army will carry the victims in a simple wooden coffin on a warships. They are transferred by the warships from Finland to the mainland. Not all bodies have been rescued. On September 28, 1994, a passenger ship carrying 867 passengers sank in the Baltic Sea in southwestern Finland. The passenger ship, called "Estonia", flew from Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. According to Finnish radio, the incident occurred 20 nautical miles south of the Turkish Islands in Finland. Before the sinking, the passenger ship had issued a radio call for rescue. But rescuers said that because of the strong sea wind, the rescue work was very difficult, and the number of rescued people was to be 12 people, and there are fears that there is not much hope to save more victims. According to preliminary analyses, the cause of the shipwreck may have been the displacement of goods carried under severe weather conditions.The President of Estonia announced the 28th as a national day of mourning after he learned about this and mourned the victims. The cause of the sinking of the "Estonia" on September 29 revealed that the British and Swedish naval crash investigators believe that the "Estonia" cabin doors are not tightly closed, coupled with the speed of sea navigation in the strong wind waves, is the main cause of the ship sinking quickly. The 15,556-ton Estonian cruise ship left Estonia's Tallinn port at 7 p.m. on September 27 to Stockholm, Sweden. At 0:30 p.m. on 28 September, the ship sank in the Baltic Sea, 40 kilometers southwest of the island of Utøya. A total of 964 passengers and crew were on board, with only 141 survivors. This was the worst naval accident in Europe since World War II. The Swedish Maritime Administration said yesterday in Stockholm that their security inspectors at Tallinn Harbour in Estonia had discovered that there was a fault in the sealing pad at the head cabin doors before the ferry departed. British maritime security officials believed that only sudden flooding could make the ship sink and sink within 5 minutes. The surviving crew, Henryk-Silast, was loading the car in the cabin before the ship sank. He recalled that the sea was flowing in from the front door of the cabin and the sealing pad was not tight. The crew could see the sea flowing into the cabin from the TV monitoring screen of the cabin, but was powerless. After the boat entered the water, it began to slide 30 degrees to one side. At this time the four engines on the boat were turned off, making the boat relentless in the shock of the fierce sea water and submerged up and down. As the boat slid, the cars stopped on the deck slid to one side, which accelerated the sliding process of the boat and eventually caused the ferry to twist the bottom to the sky. When the announcement was made, the boat was in panic and people were struggling to climb upstairs in fear. The elderly were unable to climb the ladder, and the people who climbed to the top deck were unable to find the lifeboat. More sadly, many passengers were unaware of what was happening outside and were unable to escape, causing the deaths of more than 800 people. Experts pointed out that the cabin doors were not closed tightly and sea water would flow into the cabin, leading to the accident.The Estonian police also said that if someone made a mistake, the responsible would be sentenced under the criminal law. Even modern rescue equipment, with fast-blowing slides and easy-to-operate rescue islands, could not protect people from disasters such as the sinking of the Estonian, which killed 900 people.
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