Nordic leaders said on Monday they would examine evidence from a new documentary that could shatter the official explanation of how 852 people died in a 1994 ferry sinking in the Baltic Sea. The video: The dive investigation team infiltrating into passenger cabin room number 6129, deck 6 the MS Estonia. At about 1:00 in the morning, the ship lost its bow visor and water flooded the car deck. The ship was on its scheduled route from Tallinn to Stockholm. Estonia 's bow doors failed at about 0115 … In normal airplane investigations, every last bit of wreckage is collected. Recent explorations of the wreck site has found the "MS Estonia" lying on the side 240 feet down. Cooperating with colleague Inge Pitsner, Einar Ellermaa has come out with «People of Estonia», a book looking back to Baltic Sea’s severest shipwreck in times of peace 20 years ago, and recounting the stories of those that were saved – as well as the pain of people who lost loved ones. Divers have found 125 bodies in the restaurants and bars, and about 600 are still in their cabins; whole families are buried down there. When the ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise sank in the English Channel in 1987, it was refloated and the bodies removed. The Ro-ro cruise ferry MS Estonia turned on its side and sank in the Baltic Sea on 28 September 1994. Read more: The ship seen at the Estonian sinking site has been chartered to a TV crew. The government later decided not to raise the ship or the bodies. The vessel was carrying 989 passengers and crew, 852 of whom died.-Download the ERR News app for Android and iOS now and never miss an update! After the tragedy, the decision was made not to salvage the Estonia and give the victims a land burial, but instead to leave the ship on the seabed with the bodies interred inside. The Toll - The bodies of some of the Estonia victims retrieved from the Baltic Sea. M / S Estonia sank in an autumn storm on September 28, 1994, south of the island of Utö. The videos were filmed in December by divers trying to determine whether it was possible to retrieve any of the 765 bodies believed trapped inside the ferry. This is the worst disaster in the history of … A thorough examination of the MS Estonia would have helped in construction of new ferries, where potential weaknesses would have been identified. During this and several other dives by the same team, nearly 100 bodies were discovered in a fairly small section of the ship. 'Estonia is the most successful state in central Europe,' declared President Meri, in an interview with the Independent on Sunday at his brick and stone mansion outside Tallinn on Friday night. Authorities believe 996 people were aboard the Estonia when it sank on a voyage from Tallinn, Estonia, to Stockholm. 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