In september 1994, the ship M/S Estonia sank while sailing from Tallinn, Estonia to Stockholm, Sweden.  For the approximately 1000 people aboard, it became a race against time when the lower decks and the staircases became death traps in the matter of minutes.

In this episode we follow Sara and Mikael, who managed to escape the ship in the middle of the night in the raging storm. Only a fraction of the 1000 passengers survived but the disaster would affect all of them for the rest of their lives.

What happened to the Estonia, and why? New evidence unearthed just last year (2020) can shed some new light on those questions.

Click here to view the video of the rescue:
Video of the rescuing of Sara, Kent, Morten and Paul


The soundtrack for this episode is the song “LBL” by the band Cospe, available on Spotify.

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Socialstyrelsen

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Aftonbladet

Svenska YLE

Estoniaferrydisaster.net

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