Everyone begins to salute his memory. First tributes were paid on Friday to the explorer of the deep sea Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who disappeared in an attempt to visit the wreck of the Titanic, which is precisely to be the subject of an exhibition in Paris where the organizers counted on Her presence.
The former submariner, who became a specialist in deep-sea diving and a passion for maritime archeology, died at the age of 77 on June 18 with his four teammates in the implosion of the mini-submarine Titan. “He helped humanity to understand this unknown world of the great depths,” said Bernard Cauvin, director of the Cité de la mer in Cherbourg, in a message praising a character who “passionate everyone with restraint, delicacy and humility. “.
He was to inaugurate an exhibition in Paris in July
Nicknamed “Mr. Titanic” for having visited its surroundings more than thirty times, the aquanaut had participated in the first expeditions which, after the discovery of the wreckage in 1985, had brought up the first objects from the ship lying at 3,800 meters bottom in the North Atlantic. The aquanaut was precisely expected at the inauguration, on July 18 at the Porte de Versailles in Paris, of an exhibition devoted to the ship, which will notably present many relics of the wreck.
“We salute the passion and courage of this extraordinary explorer and thank him for the dreams and emotions he has given us,” said Pascal Bernardin, organizer of “Titanic L’Exposition”, in a press release. In 2022, on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the liner, he published In the depths of the Titanicat HarperCollins France.