A French submarine operator and daredevil deep-sea explorer dubbed 'Mr Titanic', who died onboard a submersible visiting the wreck of the mythic ship, was hailed on Friday as having helped advance mankind's understanding of the 'unknown world'.
PARIS, France - A French submarine operator and daredevil deep-sea explorer dubbed "Mr Titanic", who died onboard a submersible visiting the wreck of the mythic ship, was hailed on Friday as having helped advance mankind's understanding of the "unknown world".
Nargeolet, who was based in Connecticut, had previously gone on more than 30 dives to explore the Titanic, even bringing up some of the first objects recovered from the wreck after its discovery in 1985.Bernard Cauvin, head of the Cite de la Mer maritime museum in Cherbourg, western France, said it was "a sad, sad, sad end for a giant of the deep".
Nargeolet had been expected to attend the opening of a new exhibition in Paris devoted to the Titanic on July 6.
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