Mart Luige, adviser to Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu, visited Oslo with experts from Tallinn University of Technology before the film was broadcast.

Materials that were not included in the documentary series were also shown at the time.

Among other things, the experts got to see another big hole that they believe should have been included in the documentary, something that was first noticed by the News Agency.

- It would have been fairer to publish everything they discovered.

In this case, it leaves the impression of some form of bias, says naval expert Tauri Roosipuu to Estonian ERR.

Several meters long

The hole the experts saw was horizontal, located further aft and near the seabed.

It seemed to be several meters long and a few decimetres wide.

The marine expert believes that the documentaries did not include this hole because it would create doubts about the collision theory.

Linus Andersson from Gothenburg was the one who led the naval robot along Estonia's hull in the documentary.

For him, the information about the second hole is of course nothing new.

- I can understand if someone thinks it was a bit ugly not to include that other injury as well.

But all experts have had access to our material.

They came to the conclusion that the second hole is not significant.

We have not kept anything secret, he says and continues:

- It should be remembered that what we did was a journalistic investigation and not an accident investigation.

Different character

According to Linus Andersson, the second hole is of a completely different character than what the documentary focused on.

- The horizontal hole has probably been caused by stress on weak points on the hull.

This may have happened when the ship hit the bottom or during the sinking process itself.

But in any case, it is not an impression damage of the kind we have shown, he says.

He himself does not want to draw any conclusions from the impression damage, but says that the film shows that a proper investigation is needed with completely different resources than private documentary filmmakers.

Estonia has declared that it wants to carry out a new investigation on the spot.

- I welcome that.

I have also sent material to Estonia and given them tips on how to study the hull in a systematic way.

In the clip below, the filmmakers discover the hole that the famous documentary is about:

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Pictures from the documentary "Estonia - the find that changes everything".

Photo: Dplay