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The tragic event series ESTONIA captures the true event of the sinking of the MS Estonia in September 1994. Departing from Tallinn with almost 1000 people on board, the ferry was surprised by a major storm, leading to uncontrolled tilting. Within one hour, the MS Estonia sank in Finish waters in the Baltic Sea, claiming more than 850 lives and was ever since considered one of the deadliest maritime disasters in European history. A transnational team of investigators from Estonia, Finland, and Sweden promises the survivors and bereaved full clarification. Still, with years of investigations and no one to blame, do we really have to live with the fact that “the truth lies beneath the waves,“ as one mourner puts it? 2023
