Bogus

It seems a lot of people cannot accept the fact that a modern, big passenger ship could actually founder in the Baltic. Hey, what..? Ships wreck in the Arctic, or if they're trappped in a hurricane, but not here! No way am I going to believe, son, that the ship sank because it entered a raging storm (the waves on that night were up to ten meters and some may have been higher still) and was ill prepared for it, not even if there's an admission from the Sea Security Board that Estonia was actually in bad shape and it's possible her freight security had been tinkered with. - That's just the way some of the people who survived, or the families and friends of the victims, have been ranting ever since 1994.

I'll never forget the widower I heard on the radio at one point when discussions were going on afresh about the possibilities of diving to bring up some of the bodies - many of the relatives don't understand how hard and dangerous that solution is, and that it would never be likely to be more than a piecemeal thing. Someone pointed out that the estonians and Finns have accepted Estonia as a gravesite, and they won't like it if some Swedish divers are rumbling about in the wreck for months, and you need to bring the rests of the scarred bodies up into the air, to even begin to identify them.

-Yeah, so what? he said. We'll hitch upp ALL the bodies we find and if we identify some as Finns or Estonians, or from people here whose relatives have said they don't want their loved ones moved now, okay, then we just shuck the rotting body back into the water, fine by me. That dumbass made me ashamed of being of the same people as him.

It does feel like there's a sectarian atmosphere with some of these guys, and Jutta Rabe is merely exploiting that.