Private expedition to dive into wreck of M/S Estonia ferry

A privately-funded expedition, commissioned by the relatives of the victims of the M/S Estonia ferry that sank into the Baltic Sea nearly 27 years ago, will conduct a dive into the vessel’s wreck this month

HELSINKI -- A privately-funded expedition, commissioned by relatives of the victims of the M/S Estonia ferry that sank into the Baltic Sea nearly 27 years ago, will dive into the vessel’s wreckage this month. It's the latest attempt to gain more insight into one of Europe’s worst peacetime maritime disasters. The goal of the dive, organized by a Estonia-based fund, “is to find answers to questions” that official joint and separate investigations by Estonia, Finland and Sweden have failed to provide on the vessel’s fate, the organization said Wednesday. “Although during these decades numerous different investigations have been carried out, they have not been able to give the survivors and close relatives of the deceased exhaustive answers regarding the reason why Estonia perished,” the Mare Liberum fund, created in July, said in a statement.