Peter Spooner on Estonia salvage decision
- Title
- Peter Spooner on Estonia salvage decision
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 12 Dec 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:01:10
- Description
- Interview with Peter Spooner, co-founder of the Herald Families Association which was set up after the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry sank in 06/03/87, on the decision by an advisory committee to the Swedish Government which has recommended that the Estonia car ferry should be left on the sea bed and not salvaged. 900 bodies are believed to be entombed in the ill-fated ship. Spooner says it will be a very difficult decision for the families to accept and that, if it is at all possible, the ferry should be recovered. Interviewer not heard.
- Contributors
- Peter Spooner
- Keywords
- Shipwrecks; Belgium; Sweden; Ferries; Harbours; Seaborne disasters; P & O; Salvage; Dead bodies; Zeebrugge; Herald of Free Enterprise disaster (1987); Estonia (ferry)
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