Reply With QuoteIt was a pretty good disaster
Not as good as 9/11 obviously, but I give it a rating of 7/10 disaster points which is a pretty good rating for a ship disaster.
The Estonia Disaster 1994
Just feeling nostalig about the disaster, the worst on the Baltic sea. The rest can be found on youtube.
Just to enlighten the importance of communiation.
It was a pretty good disaster
Not as good as 9/11 obviously, but I give it a rating of 7/10 disaster points which is a pretty good rating for a ship disaster.
Yeah sorry, it was idiotic to post this, just had somw dudes claiming it was a collision with a submarine...
Mayby ay mod can throw this thread away...
1994 is a long time ago, those images of the liferafts upside down in the foaming sea, haunted me for a long time.
852 lives, rest in peace.
Absolute horror. May they rest in peace.
How are the Estonia conspiracy theories faring today?
The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was still worse, about 10 times as many dead (worst ever in history). But yeah, both of these disasters somehow dont get that much attention.Originally Posted by Anomander
And I normally dont give a damn about conspiracy theories, but in this case there are indeed still a lot of unanswered questions.
The Wilhem Gustloff had 10,000 passengers. Many of them died from exposure to freezing water.
Oh no you di-int
I took the ferry trip from Helsinki to Tallinn and return in december last year. Tall waves and freezing cold outside, couldn't stop thinking of the Estonia disaster :/
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You're the only person I know that could ever make this joke and get away with it. Maybe Niels too.
Well, imho there isn't yet an international disaster scale, but this is one proposition:
http://scienceblog.com/community/old...C/2003985.html
Maybe not joke, but assessment on the scale of the disaster.
The Estonia disaster was also the time when Europe finally caught up to the US in conspiracy theories.
Btw, you can study disaster management at University Copenhagen and get a Master of Disaster (management)
My father survived Estonia, and all these years he has claimed that he saw military personnel loading in "equipment", but he was not close enough to see what it was
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