Bishops throw white rose into the sea at the start of a new inquiry into the 1994 sinking of the ferry MS Estonia and loss of 852 lives - Copyright AFP Peter Louis ...

Sept. 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 490 B.C., the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon. A Greek soldier named Phidippides ran more than 26 miles to tell Athenians of the victory and died ...

The sinking of the Estonia ro-ro passenger ferry stands out as one of the most disastrous accidents in modern times. The tragedy claimed 852 lives and the wreck was declared a marine graveyard. At ...

Some relatives of victims of the 1994 sinking of the ferry MS Estonia in the Baltic Sea are planning an investigation of the shipwreck this month independently of ... Already a Barron's subscriber?

The year is 1994 when a sudden distress signal goes out in the Baltic Sea. MS Estonia is about to sink. The priest Mikaela Karlsson, the engineer Henri Peltonen and the rescue diver Ari Luoma-aho are ...

Russia may be using the wreck of the MS Estonia–a Baltic Sea ferry that sank in 1994–as a training ground and strategic base for covert underwater surveillance operations targeting NATO forces, ...

Sweden and Estonia on Friday opened a fresh investigation into the 1994 sinking of the ferry MS Estonia in the Baltic Sea and the loss of 852 lives, accident authorities said.

A 1:100 scale model of the MS Estonia is on display at the Estonian Maritime Museum on June 20, 2018. On September 28, 1994, 852 people died after the ferry, traveling from Estonia to Sweden, capsized ...