The world's preeminent authority on the Titanic shipwreck was permitted to join the ill-fated Titan dive on OceanGate's false promises of top-tier safety, a new legal filing alleges.
Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a 77-year-old French submersible expert who is also a Titanic historian, was one of five passengers who died when the submersible imploded after disappearing during a dive to the century-old shipwreck last month.
Nargeolet spent two decades working with RMS Titanic Inc. — the company that owns the sole rights to the Titanic wreckage — and participated in and led dozens of dives to the shipwreck, including several previous trips in the Titan.
In a document filed in federal court on Saturday, RMS Titanic said it "approved" Nargeolet's participation in the doomed Titan expedition because of a 2021 OceanGate letter that touted the Titan's top-tier construction.
But David Concannon, the author of the letter who is on OceanGate's counsel, rejected the filing's claims in comments to Insider this week.
"PH told me directly in 2021 and 2022 that he was on the Ocean Gate Expeditions on his own accord," Concannon said in an email to Insider, referring to Nargeolet by his nickname. "He was not there as a...
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