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Introducing Crowd Network Presents: The Secret History of the Estonia

A tale of secrets, smugglers, and spies. Journalist Stephen Davis investigates the mystery behind why a passenger ferry sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994, killing 852 people, and becoming Europe's worst peacetime shipping disaster since the sinking of the Titanic. To this day, the wreck lies on the seabed… the bodies were never recovered, attempts were made to bury the wreck in rubble, and laws were introduced to make it illegal to dive there. It's raised the question of whether there's something down there which authorities don't want to be found...

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