29/09/1994

[Andrejs]

Today 10 years ago, a ship named "Estonia" that were heading from Estonia to Sweden drowned

It carried allmost 1000 passangers, mostly Swedes, Estonians and Finnish but also British, German and so on. I lived in Tallinn at the time, and my Grandfather who was just visiting us wanted to go to Stockholm and then back to England,Salford were he lived.Unfortunately he was one of the 852 who died, there were around 50 people from my homeland Latvia

There are alot of conspiracy theorys what happened, but they are mostly bull****e...

Here are some links
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3697668.stm
http://www.multi.fi/~stigb/Estonia/estonia0.html
http://www.estonia.exprimo.net/estonia/index.html

Sorry if this sounds too far to you, but i just thought it deserves a thread

Rest in peace everyone who died

 

[Shindig]

Damn. I was expecting a '10 years ago Estonia was formed' or something. Instead this is one of those unhappy threads.

Well, God's a bastard.

 

[adj137]

Originally posted by Shindig

Well, God's a bastard.

im gonna agree with you on that one.
but 852 people out of 1000 died, did they not have enough lifeboat's or something

 

[Vagegast]

Never jnew this happened.

 

[Sepp2in1]

Originally posted by adj137
im gonna agree with you on that one.
but 852 people out of 1000 died, did they not have enough lifeboat's or something

if i remember correctly it happened at night, so most of the people were sleeping.

 

[Andrejs]

Yeah it happened at night, everyone were sleeping and baltics were pretty much in stone age at the time, no computers no cell phones, nothing, info hardly spreaded and the rescue operation started 2 houres after the ship went down

 

[Bilo90]

sorry about your grandfather Andrejs...

R.I.P to everybody who died

 

[Glorious]

so sad