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Chilling quote: > Thiger heard a clear comment from only one passenger, a man nearby, who joked, "Ha! Now we have sailed against an iceberg!" and took another
by Radim 6y ago
Chilling quote:
> Thiger heard a clear comment from only one passenger, a man nearby, who joked, "Ha! Now we have sailed against an iceberg!" and took another gulp of beer. The singing continued unabated.
Surely, this couldn't be happening to us!
- Radim 6y agoI continued reading, what a rabbit hole. Apparently the cause of MS Estonia's sinking, as documented in that Atlantic article, is bogus. New evidence points to a submarine collision and tampering of evidence in the initial 1994 investigation: * https://news.err.ee/1140442/head-of-ms-estonia-investigation-estonia-sank-on-collision-with-submarine https://news.err.ee/1140442/head-of-ms-estonia-investigation... * https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/04/maybe-now-well-get-some-answers-film-maker-challenges-official-story-of-estonia-ferry-disaster https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/04/maybe-now-well... The whole shebang, with "crazy conspiracy theories", ridiculed for decades for claiming a hole in the hull and weapons transported onboard, now vindicated. What a mess.