Titanic exhibition opens in shadow of explorer’s submarine disaster
Titanic exhibition opens in shadow of explorer’s submarine disaster
PARIS: A major exhibition dedicated to the Titanic opened in Paris on Tuesday, with many of the objects on display brought up from the ship’s wreck by a French deep-sea explorer who died in a submersible disaster last month.
Henri-Paul Nargeolet, who was nicknamed “Mr Titanic”, was one of five people onboard the Titan tourist sub when it lost contact with the surface after plunging down to visit the wreck in mid-June.
An attempted rescue operation in the North Atlantic briefly captivated the world before it found evidence that the vessel had imploded underwater, killing all on board.
The Titanic exhibition which opened in the French capital was “largely the result of the work, ingenuity and passion of Henri-Paul Nargeolet,” the event’s producer Pascal Bernardin said.
Nargeolet, 77, had been expected to attend the exhibition’s opening. The explorer helped bring up many of the 260 objects on display — which include navigation instruments and hooks from the ship as well as watches and jewellery from its passengers — from the wreck.
The exhibition, which runs from July 18 to Sept 10, starts off with a more than four-metre-long model of the mythic ship.
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