Nargeolet took over three-dozen trips to the Titanic wreck site throughout his life before boarding one final vessel, the OceanGate Expeditions Titan submersible.
Titanic explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet — one of five passengers aboard the doomed Titan submersible — reportedly lived in a small Dutchess County town in New York.
The Titanic — hailed as “unsinkable’ before it dropped to the bottom of the ocean in 1912 — lost more than 1,500 passengers after ramming into an iceberg 450 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. Paul Henri Nargeolet, right, in August 1998 with an unidentified friend in Boston on the return of an expedition where they recovered a section of the Titantic’s hull.
He and four others — Sulaiman Dawood, 19; his business tycoon father Shahzada, 48; British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58, and OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush, 61 — were on the Titan June 18 en route to the historic site.
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