Europe's worst shipwreck: What happened to the MS Estonia?

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 4 a.m.

The MS Estonia sank into the icy Baltic Sea in 1994, descending alongside the evidence of what happened that fateful night where 852 people died. Nearly twenty-six years later the shipwreck still sits on a shallow sea bed and new evidence has raised questions about what caused it to go down. 


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Guests:

- Paul Barney - A Briton who was on board the MS Estonia when it capsized and sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994.

- Henrik Evertsson - Documentary filmmaker and journalist prosecuted for investigating the sinking of the MS Estonia.

- Matthew Campbell - Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times, was working in Moscow when the MS Estonia sank.


Host: David Aaronovitch.


Clips used: discovery+. You can watch the full series of Estonia. It is available now on discovery+.



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