Post by Elvis84 on Sept 30, 2003 12:48:05 GMT -5
Thought that maybe it might be interesting for you to read:
On that day ferry-ship "ESTONIA" with 1049 passangers, sunk in the stormy Baltic Sea. !!!912!!! people died.
Here is as it all happend:
19:00 > 20.00
The ship left the port of the Estonian capital Tallinn September 27, 1994 at about 19:00 local time (GMT+2h) with 989 people onboard. Of these 803 were passengers who had bought a ticket. She was expected arrive in Stockholm (Sweden) the next morning around 09:30. She never arrived.
20:00 > 01.00
The weather was rough with rain, winds of 20 - 25 m/s and waves up to 5 meters high. According to the passengers the atmosphere onboard was good and relaxed even if the ship rolled and thumped its way against the seas. The speed was relatively high to keep the timetable.
The former captain from the time when the ship was named Wasa King, captain Bo Brink said after the disaster
- "It was a good ship, a top vessel. We can't understand how this could happen."
On the other hand Sakari Kleimola, the former chef mate, said:
- "The Estonia was not really that suitable for sea traffic. She was not even designed like a ship, rather more like a trunk, and travelling with her especially in side winds was not that comfortable."
01.00: > 01.30
A moment after 01:00 as the ship was approaching a spot ~35 km south east of Utö island, in the outer region of Turku archipelago, something went wrong. Some of the people onboard sensed a thump different from the others, and wondered what it was. A passenger in a cabin close to the car deck said that he woke up to a loud rumble, and run quickly up on deck. Others never made it out.
Passenger Vilho Itäranta told the media in the hospital:
- "Suddenly the table and the suitcases tumbled down in the cabin. I yelled to my friend: "LETS GET OUT, QUICKLY!! It's our only chance!" I started running without knowing where my friend left."
The vessel suddenly lurched some 30 - 40 degrees to the right.
Henrik Sillaste (motorman):
- "I was in the engine room when barrels suddenly started rolling around. I run up (to the control room) and found the engineer in duty by the monitors, showing the stern and the bow doors. In the bow monitor we could see, that a lot of water rapidly swelled in through the bow door."
Kent Harstedt 29:
- "The cozy atmosphere in the bar with people singing, laughing and having a good time was just in a few seconds to be changed to total chaos. Suddenly the ship leaned down on the side, and the girls who sold drinks in the bar got everything in the bar over themselves, and fell to the floor. At the same time a crowd of people fell on to the wall breaking arms and legs. Just for a short moment people were wondering what was going on, and could not quite understand what had happened. One tiny second everybody stopped and just looked at each other. It felt like they were just standing and observing one and other without understanding what was going on."
Vilho Itaranta:
- "I went to the highest place, where the lifeboats were. As far as I could see there were no lifeboats lowered, at least from that side. "
At 01:24 when Estonia was in position 59 º 23' N - 21 º 42' E, in the Baltic Sea, bearing ~ 157 º ~ 22 nautical miles from Utö island (Finland) , Radio operator Ilkka Kärppölä received a May - Day message.
-"I started my watch at 22:00 and everything was real quiet. At 01:24 the Estonia sent a May - Day message telling that they have a bad list and black-out. The contact lasted for about two minutes and was the only one."
Read the ending of this terrible disaster and watch animations here:
www.multi.fi/~stigb/Estonia/index.html
(PS. Statistics aren`t all true)
On that day ferry-ship "ESTONIA" with 1049 passangers, sunk in the stormy Baltic Sea. !!!912!!! people died.
Here is as it all happend:
19:00 > 20.00
The ship left the port of the Estonian capital Tallinn September 27, 1994 at about 19:00 local time (GMT+2h) with 989 people onboard. Of these 803 were passengers who had bought a ticket. She was expected arrive in Stockholm (Sweden) the next morning around 09:30. She never arrived.
20:00 > 01.00
The weather was rough with rain, winds of 20 - 25 m/s and waves up to 5 meters high. According to the passengers the atmosphere onboard was good and relaxed even if the ship rolled and thumped its way against the seas. The speed was relatively high to keep the timetable.
The former captain from the time when the ship was named Wasa King, captain Bo Brink said after the disaster
- "It was a good ship, a top vessel. We can't understand how this could happen."
On the other hand Sakari Kleimola, the former chef mate, said:
- "The Estonia was not really that suitable for sea traffic. She was not even designed like a ship, rather more like a trunk, and travelling with her especially in side winds was not that comfortable."
01.00: > 01.30
A moment after 01:00 as the ship was approaching a spot ~35 km south east of Utö island, in the outer region of Turku archipelago, something went wrong. Some of the people onboard sensed a thump different from the others, and wondered what it was. A passenger in a cabin close to the car deck said that he woke up to a loud rumble, and run quickly up on deck. Others never made it out.
Passenger Vilho Itäranta told the media in the hospital:
- "Suddenly the table and the suitcases tumbled down in the cabin. I yelled to my friend: "LETS GET OUT, QUICKLY!! It's our only chance!" I started running without knowing where my friend left."
The vessel suddenly lurched some 30 - 40 degrees to the right.
Henrik Sillaste (motorman):
- "I was in the engine room when barrels suddenly started rolling around. I run up (to the control room) and found the engineer in duty by the monitors, showing the stern and the bow doors. In the bow monitor we could see, that a lot of water rapidly swelled in through the bow door."
Kent Harstedt 29:
- "The cozy atmosphere in the bar with people singing, laughing and having a good time was just in a few seconds to be changed to total chaos. Suddenly the ship leaned down on the side, and the girls who sold drinks in the bar got everything in the bar over themselves, and fell to the floor. At the same time a crowd of people fell on to the wall breaking arms and legs. Just for a short moment people were wondering what was going on, and could not quite understand what had happened. One tiny second everybody stopped and just looked at each other. It felt like they were just standing and observing one and other without understanding what was going on."
Vilho Itaranta:
- "I went to the highest place, where the lifeboats were. As far as I could see there were no lifeboats lowered, at least from that side. "
At 01:24 when Estonia was in position 59 º 23' N - 21 º 42' E, in the Baltic Sea, bearing ~ 157 º ~ 22 nautical miles from Utö island (Finland) , Radio operator Ilkka Kärppölä received a May - Day message.
-"I started my watch at 22:00 and everything was real quiet. At 01:24 the Estonia sent a May - Day message telling that they have a bad list and black-out. The contact lasted for about two minutes and was the only one."
Read the ending of this terrible disaster and watch animations here:
www.multi.fi/~stigb/Estonia/index.html
(PS. Statistics aren`t all true)