- I've always wondered, what really happened?
he says.
Already three years after the accident came the first report of what happened that September night out in the Baltic Sea, when the passenger ship Estonia sank and 852 people died.
Documentary filmmaker
- It contained inaccuracies and because there was a lot of secrecy around it, there was a lot of uncertainty.
In addition, we were almost declared incompetent.
The authorities decided and that was fine.
In 2020, two filmmakers defied the law of grave peace that prevails around the ship, and their findings prompted further investigation.
Those investigations now show that there was no explosion, but the reason for the sinking was the substandard bow visor.
According to the accident commissions, there is no reason to question the findings of the report from 1997.
In the clip, Erik Gemheden tells what today's announcement means to him.