Well, this is a bit quick — and unexpected. On Thursday we learned the missing Titan submersible, lost on a routine trip down to see the Titanic wreckage, had suffered a catastrophic implosion, killing all aboard.
The five souls lost were French explorer and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Suleman, British billionaire Hamish Harding, and Stockton Rush — CEO of OceanGate, the company behind the deep-sea expedition. Related: Wife Of OceanGate CEO Descended From Couple Who Died On Titanic! Over the weekend, per TMZ, two Titanic museums — institutions dedicated to preserving the memories of the lost ship and its doomed passengers — had already held memorials for the Titan.
The Titanic Museum Attraction — one located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and the other in Branson, Missouri — held the ceremonies.
To be clear, if you hadn’t guessed by the towns, these are tourist attractions more than scientific institutions. But it’s still surprising to hear they decided to hold memorials honoring fallen… well, tourists, for lack of a better word.
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