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Titanic expert with CT ties on board missing submersible
One of the five people onboard a submersible that went missing on its way to the wreckage site of the Titanic has ties to Connecticut.
Paul-Henri “PH” Nargeolet, an underwater researcher and highly regarded Titanic expert, lived in both South Kent and Greenwich, records show.
The 77-year-old French deep sea explorer is one of five men on board the OceanGate Expeditions’ Titan, which lost signal shortly after submerging in the ocean bound for the wreckage of the Titanic. The vessel’s communication systems stopped about an hour and 45 minutes after the Titan submerged, The Associated Press reported.
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The full scope of the search was twice the size of Connecticut in waters 2 ½ miles deep, according to the First Coast Guard District.
Nargeolet, who now resides in Duchess County, New York, is the director of underwater research for RMS Titanic, Inc., which owns the salvage rights to the Titanic wreck and manages artifacts at many Titanic exhibitions, according to the company’s website.
The company tweeted a statement on Wednesday, lauding Nargeolet’s expertise on the Titanic wreck site.
“Paul-Henry (PH) Nargeolet is a precious member of the RMS Titanic, Inc. family whose passion for Titanic and diving led him to complete over 35 submersible dives, more than anyone, and his knowledge of the wreck site is unparalleled,” the company said in their statement. “We trust and have faith his experience will help navigate this critical situation.”
— RMS Titanic, Inc. (@RMSTitanic_Inc) June 21, 2023
Also on board the vessel are pilot and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, billionaire Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood. A ride to the shipwreck costs approximately $250,000, multiple media outlets have reported.
According to property records and Sotheby’s International Realty, Nargeolet owned a 1700’s house called Pond Meadow Farm nestled on 28 acres in Litchfield County’s South Kent until 2022, when the home sold for nearly $2.5 million, according to Zillow.
Nargeolet was a member of the Kent Memorial Library board while living in South Kent. He joined the board in 2015, according to the library’s website.
The library board published a brief biography of Nargeolet, who served 25 years in the French Navy where he was a captain of the Deep Submergence Group of the Navy, the library said.
His career in deep-sea diving spanned decades and included work for the French Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea and several expeditions to the Titanic site, according to the Kent Memorial Library.
Nargeolet was also part of a team that discovered a “biodiverse abyssal ecosystem” near the Titanic wreck on a previously unknown basalt formation, according to OceanGate.
During an expedition in 2022, explorers discovered the “extremely productive and dense ecosystem” about 2,900 meters deep. The discovery was preliminarily named Nargeolet-Fanning Ridge in Nargeolet’s honor, OceanGate said.
In its statement on Twitter this week, RMS Titanic, Inc. president Jessica Sanders said, “We are devastated with the news, but remain steadfast in a hope for a safe rescue for all. PH is more than a colleague, he is a friend. No one has more experience at the wreck site than PH, and no one has a better chance of navigating through equipment failures than he does. We remain hopeful.”
Experts estimated that the submersible will likely run out of its oxygen supply by Thursday morning, according to multiple media reports.
On Wednesday, Canadian military aircraft detected underwater noises near the area that was being searched, but nothing had been found yet in connection with the noises, according to the First Coast Guard District for the United States Coast Guard Northeast.
Coast Guard officials were bringing in more ships and other vessels to search the area, though the exact location of the sounds had not yet been narrowed down, the AP reported. The Coast Guard said that three vessels arrived on-scene Wednesday morning, including the John Cabot, which has side-scanning sonar capabilities, the Skandi Vinland and the Atlantic Merlin.
WESTMINSTER, Vt. (WCAX) – They may be considered a pest in Lake Champlain, but state wildlife officials say sea lamprey call the Connecticut River home.
While the population in Lake Champlain is controlled as a nuisance species, lampreys make up an important part of the Connecticut River ecosystem. Every year, sea lampreys spawn in the river as far upstream as Wilder Dam in the Upper Valley, and in many of the tributaries including the West, Williams, Black, and White Rivers.
In this week’s Wildlife Watch, Ike Bendavid traveled to Westminster, where Vermont Fish and Wildlife biologists are working to protect spawning habitat on the Saxtons River.
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A New Yorker has turned his new home in Connecticut into a pop-of-color “dollhouse” after dreaming of such a space ever since he was a child.
Jonny Carmack, 31, bought his Danbury, Connecticut, home in 2020 after needing to escape Manhattan during the pandemic.
He said that this particular three-bedroom, one-and-a-half bathroom home was the first space he toured — and that it was the perfect size but didn’t have the perfect look, SWNS reported.
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However, he’d been dreaming of turning a property into his personal “dollhouse” ever since he was a kid, he said.
“When I bought this house, I knew I wanted to use it as a landing pad for my creativity,” he said.
Jonny Carmack, pictured here, told Fox News Digital he’s grateful for the supportive online community that’s been weighing in on his colorful home. (Jonny Carmack / Fox News)
Today, after spending roughly $20,000 on renovations, Carmack has a color-filled space that is hard to miss.
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Thanks to some help from Facebook Marketplace and HomeGoods, Carmack bought unique secondhand items to turn his new space into something special.
Carmack has multiple rooms in his home that are full of colorful items. (SWNS / SWNS)
“I knew what I wanted the themes of my home to be, and now I have been finetuning them to push my personality out there more,” he told SWNS.
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Carmack has a fruit room, a bakery dining room, a blue lounge, a pink parlor, a pop art bathroom, an ice cream bathroom and more themed spaces within his Connecticut home.
The homeowner said he added over $100,000 in value to his home thanks to the colorful renovations and decorative items.
The dining room of the home features shades of green, pink and blue throughout. (SWNS / SWNS)
Carmack noted that his favorite space in the home is his kitchen.
He said it has the best lighting, and that he loves to use it for cooking and hosting.
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Carmack told Fox News Digital that his rooms were inspired by special people and places he idolized.
“Each room is designed around the vintage 1980s furniture I curated over the last 3 to 4 years,” he said. “And my biggest inspirations have been Dolly Parton, Barbie and colorful Floridian tack.”
Carmack, who moved to Connecticut a few years ago, said he’s dreamed of creating a real-life dollhouse for as long as he can remember. (SWNS / SWNS)
He also told Fox News Digital that he’d always been drawn to “dollhouse aesthetics” as a child and would often imagine himself living in such a place.
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He said, “I tried to force myself into the more tame and modern stylings as an adult and decorated many spaces in various shades of beige and white before being brave enough to go bold!”
A man has added $100,000 worth of value to his Connecticut home thanks to renovations and items he bought secondhand. (SWNS/Jonny Carmack / SWNS)
Carmack has posted about his unique space on Instagram, where he has over 177,000 followers.
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He told Fox News Digital he’s grateful to the creative community online that loves his home space as much as he does.
AAA just released their annual report on 4th of July travel. The goal of the information dump is to make folks aware of the peak (worst) travel times for holidays. Some of this is common sense and other time periods may surprise you.
Connecticut has its own quirks that need to be accounted for but the national guidelines are pretty standard across the board. Here are the Best and Worst Travel times for this coming (2024) 4th of July holiday.
Best Travel Times By Car:
- Monday July 1 – Minimal Traffic Expected All Day
- Tuesday, July 2 – Before Noon
- Wednesday, July 3 – Before Noon
- Thursday, July 4 – Before Noon
- Friday, July 5 – Before 10am
- Saturday, July 6 – Before 10am
- Sunday, July 7 – Before 11am
- Monday, July 8 – After 7pm
Worst Travel Times By Car:
- Tuesday, July 2 – 2-6pm
- Wednesday, July 3 – 2-7pm
- Thursday, July 4 – 2-7pm
- Friday, July 5 – 11am-4pm
- Saturday, July 6 – 10:30am-2:30pm
- Sunday, July 7 – 2-8pm
- Monday, July 8 – 1-5pm
I have done the 4th of July road trip so many times I can tell you horror stories that would melt your face. For many years I went to Florida for the week of the 4th of July. We would leave in the middle of the night, 2am, 3am, 4am. The years we fooled ourselves into thinking any kind of day driving would be OK, became a nightmare. Even if you leave at 6am, you hit monstrous traffic in the Washington D.C. area that brings you to a standstill for hours.
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Do yourself a favor, no matter which direction you are headed, take the AAA numbers and get even more extreme. If you can embark at 2am, you should. Happy 4th of July in advance, it is the single-greatest holiday we all celebrate.
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