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Jonas Bäckstrand
Chair of Investigations
Deputy Director General
Telephone: 08-508 862 00
Email: jonas.backstrand(at)havkom.se
Jörgen Zachau
Investigation In Charge
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Email: jorgen.zachau(at)havkom.se
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The photo documentation carried out on MS Estonia during the summer of 2022 resulted in approximately 45,000 photographs. The work of assembling the photographs into a 3D model has now been completed.
BACKGROUND
The passenger ship Estonia sank on September 28, 1994, during a voyage from Tallinn to Stockholm.
Of the 989 people on board, 852 people died. In accordance with an agreement between the prime ministers of Estonia, Finland and Sweden, a Joint Accident Investigation Commission (JAIC) was formed to investigate the accident. A final report was published in December 1997.
SURVEYS SUMMER 2022
- You can see every hole in the wreck, every clam, down to the millimeter level. It is an incredibly detailed documentation method, says Ingemar Lundgren from Ocean Discovery.
A 3D model of the wreck leaves very little to the imagination, says Lundgren, who is also an experienced technical diver and carries out this kind of research on behalf of, among others, the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management.
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