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by medvezhenok 1096 days ago
*Some of them are rich tourists. Paul-Henri Nargeolet is one of the people on board, has done more than 30 dives to the site since the 1980s, technically owns the rights to the ship, was in the French Navy for 20+ years, and has recovered artifacts from the site - only person to do so.

Not quite fair to call him a tourist.

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Taxi driver in that case? Someone paid to take rich people around...
He also has a net worth of 1.5 billion dollars.

You can be both rich and the foremost world expert on the Titanic at the same time.

I would think he would be sending Morse code, being a Navy man.
I was wondering about that. This banging the rescue teams have been picking up, can sonar or whatever they're using pick it up clearly enough to decode a message? Would they even know what to send?