Sinking of the MS Estonia: What Happened in the Baltic Sea?

It is one of the worst shipping disasters of all time - and one of the most mysterious. On September 28, 1994, the car ferry MS Estonia sank in the middle of the Baltic Sea. The reasons for the tragedy with 852 deaths have not yet been fully explained. What happened on the high seas that night 30 years ago? A journey to the place where the Estonia set sail - and where it should have arrived.

A film by Matthias Schwarzer and Noah Matzat.


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Many thanks to the YouTuber ‪@caljucotcas‬, whose Estonia animation I was allowed to use in the video. You can find his original video here:
   • Sinking of the MS Estonia  

The image sources for the collage in the thumbnail are: Vrak Museum Stockholm (Estonia photo), Accident Investigation Board Finland (life raft), Expressen and Daily Express (newspaper clippings).


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Correction:
In the introduction I say that the ferry left Tallinn on September 28th. In fact, it did so on September 27th and then sank during the night, on September 28th, 1994.


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Sources for the video:

"Estonia" sinking: A ferry becomes a plaything of the waves (NDR, German):
https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronol...

Sinking of the Estonia: A 15,000 ton secret (Profil.at, German):
https://www.profil.at/ausland/unterga...

The disappeared from Utö (Spiegel, German):
https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/est...

The mystery of Europe's worst shipping disaster since 1945 (Welt, German):
https://www.welt.de/geschichte/articl...

Quotes from survivors (Deutschlandfunk, German):
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/unterg...

Explosions on board? Spiegel report from 2001 (German):
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/unter...

Theories about the Estonia (NDR, German):
https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronol...

The Meyer shipyard denies design errors (German):
https://www.meyerwerft.de/de/schiffe/...

TUHH investigation (German):
https://www.tuhh.de/ssi/forschung/pro...

Current interim report on Estonia disaster:
https://safety4sea.com/wp-content/upl...


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Intro song:
MÆT - Start Again

Music:
Epidemic Sound

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