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Reymond Langton Design penned both the interior and exterior features of the fantastic superyacht and Abeking & Rasmussen built her.

She was delivered from their Lemwerder shipyard in 2010, along with two sister ships, Eminence and C2, which are privately owned pleasure yachts. TITAN is used personally by the owner.

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The TITAN yacht features interior design from British yacht designer Reymond Langton Design .

The interior details of the TITAN yacht remain private, but Reymond Langton Design is known for its beautiful and functional designs.

She has accommodation for 14 guests on board in 7 suites. There is also accommodation for 19 crew members on board the 80m superyacht.

She has a beach club for a perfect indoor/outdoor for guests to enjoy on the water level.

There is an on-deck Jacuzzi for relaxation and a gym for guests to use. There is also a movie theater that guests can relax in after a day on the water.

TITAN features a unique Abeking & Rasmussen feature with a large transom hatch to load and launch the tenders from the large interior garage.

The exterior of the TITAN yacht was also designed by Reymond Langton Design and built by the German shipyard Abeking & Rasmussen.

The shipyard’s in-house design team penned the naval architecture. She was delivered from the Lemwerder shipyard in 2010 and refitted in 2021.

The hull of the TITAN yacht is grey with a white aluminum superstructure. TITAN has a modern and powerful exterior on the water.

Specifications

The TITAN yacht is a 78.43m yacht with a 12.6m beam and a 3.4m draft. She has a displacement of 2115 gross tons and a top speed of 17 knots.

Her two Caterpillar engines give her a cruising speed of 13 knots and a range of 6000 nautical miles.

She has at-anchor stabilizers to provide exceptional comfort levels for guests. The $100 million vessel has an annual running cost of $5 – $10 million. She was built to Lloyd’s Society Rules and MCA standards.

The TITAN yacht is a privately owned yacht that is not available for charter. However, her sister ship Eminence is a charter yacht.

The owner was born in Krasnodar, Russia, USSR, and is of Jewish descent. He attended The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, graduating with a degree in physics and mathematics in 1982.

Before beginning his business ventures, he first worked for Russia’s space and defense program as a scientist.

Government funding declined for the space program, and so he became a major businessman in Russia. 

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he ran a laboratory at the Joint Institute of High-Pressure Temperatures, studying high energy densities and shock wave physics and applied electrodynamics.

Abramov leaped into business when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and founded his first firm in 1992 that imported and sold fitness equipment.

Later, he joined former classmates to create EvrazMetall, an exporter of Russian steel. This precursor enterprise of Evraz Holding made him a fortune by exporting metals and coals from the Urals and Siberia.

Between 2001 and 2003, Abramov and his partners acquired three steel plants Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Plant, West Siberian Iron and Steel Plant, and Novokuznetsk Iron and Steel Plant.

These three plants were the foundation for Evraz, which now has iron ore, coal mining, and steel manufacturing operations. The partners sold shares in Evraz on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 for $400 million.

A year later, the partners sold 41% of the company to billionaire Roman Abramovich, pocketing $3 billion.

There are ten partners in Evraz. Abramov has a 29% stake in the country and is a director alongside Alexander Frolov.

Abramov used the process to invest in gold, forestry, and mobile internet services. In 2013, Abramov and Abramovich teamed up again to buy a 5.9% stake in Norilsk Nickel, the world’s second-largest nickel producer.

Abramov and partners sold a 24.5% stake in Trans Container for $436 million. The company is Russia’s largest railway container operator.

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The wrecked bow of The Titan Yacht, luckily it can still float.

One summer day, the Teen Titans decided to take a break from all the relaxing they do, so they disembarked from the Tower on their yacht. Aboard the humungous vacation frigate, the Titans were kicking back in the hot tub, dancing, and eating a lot of food. (kinda typical for the superhero team) All of a sudden, Beast Boy caught sight of a massive tidal wave heading straight for The Titan Yacht. The ship steamed full speed away from the tsunami, but the chase ended when the wave crashed down onto the boat, shattering and splintering it in all directions. Clinging to a hunk of the bow, the Titans managed to survive and camp out on a deserted isle. Unfortunately, the yacht was now run aground, useless.

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The Titan Yacht just off the coast of Titans Tower .

Similar to a few other of their vehicles and machines, The Titan Yacht is painted primarily white, with streaks of pink and clear blue windows. The bow sports the name of the ship in pink lettering. Directly across the side (improper boat terms may be used) is a deck with one strip of windows. Just above that on the main deck is a sort of cabin with a white and pink roof. This is most likely the dining hall.

Hot tub party (Main deck).

This floor is decorated with colored banners and Christmas lights. A hot tub, speakers, and a table stacked with burgers and burritos all make it the perfect party place, not to mention the mahogany wood floors.

When it's destroyed, The Titan Yacht basically looks the same, just a few cracks here and there. Also, there's multiple shards of wood, a steering wheel, and life preservers lying around in the water. Wreckage.

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• This boat is featured in the preliminary chorus on the " Five Whole Days " song.

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Crew of titan sub knew they were going to die before implosion, according to more than $50m lawsuit.

The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion has filed a more than $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster and accusing the sub’s operator of gross negligence.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet was among five people who died when the  Titan submersible imploded  during a voyage to the famed Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic in June 2023. No one survived the trip aboard the experimental submersible owned by OceanGate, a company in Washington state that has since suspended operations.

Known as “Mr. Titanic,” Nargeolet participated in 37 dives to  the Titanic site , the most of any diver in the world, according to the lawsuit. He was regarded as one of the world’s most knowledgeable people about the famous wreck. Attorneys for his estate said in an emailed statement that the “doomed submersible” had a “troubled history,” and that OceanGate failed to disclose key facts about the vessel and its durability.

Related article US Coast Guard recovers remaining debris and evidence from Titan submersible

According to the lawsuit, the Titan “dropped weights” about 90 minutes into its dive, indicating the team had aborted or attempted to abort the dive.

“While the exact cause of failure may never be determined, experts agree that the Titan’s crew would have realized exactly what was happening,” the lawsuit states. “Common sense dictates that the crew were well aware they were going to die, before dying.”

The lawsuit goes on to say: “The crew may well have heard the carbon fiber’s crackling noise grow more intense as the weight of the water pressed on Titan’s hull. The crew lost communications and perhaps power as well. By experts’ reckoning, they would have continued to descend, in full knowledge of the vessel’s irreversible failures, experiencing terror and mental anguish prior to the Titan ultimately imploding.”

A spokesperson for OceanGate declined to comment on the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in King County, Washington. The defendants must respond to the complaint in the coming weeks, court papers state. The lawsuit describes Nargeolet as an employee of OceanGate and a crew member on the Titan.

The suit also criticizes Titan’s “hip, contemporary, wireless electronics system, and states that none of the controller, controls or gauges would work without a constant source of power and a wireless signal.”

Related video US Coast Guard convenes marine board of investigation into implosion of Titan submersible

Though OceanGate designated Nargeolet as a member of the crew, “many of the particulars about the vessel’s flaws and shortcomings were not disclosed and were purposely concealed,” the attorneys, the Buzbee Law Firm of Houston, Texas, said in their statement.

Tony Buzbee, one of the attorneys on the case, said one of the suit’s goals is to “get answers for the family as to exactly how this happened, who all were involved, and how those involved could allow this to happen.”

Concerns were raised in the aftermath of the disaster about whether the Titan was doomed due to its unconventional design and its creator’s refusal to submit to independent checks that are standard in the industry. Its implosion also raised questions about the viability and future of private deep-sea exploration.

The U.S. Coast Guard quickly convened a high-level investigation, which is ongoing. A  key public hearing  that is part of the investigation is scheduled to take place in September.

The Titan made its last dive on June 18, 2023, a Sunday morning, and lost contact with its support vessel about two hours later. After a search and rescue mission that drew attention around the world, the wreckage of the Titan was found on the ocean floor about 984 feet (300 meters) off the bow of the Titanic, about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland.

OceanGate CEO and cofounder Stockton Rush was operating the Titan when it imploded. The lawsuit describes Rush as “an eccentric and self-styled ‘innovator’ in the deep-sea diving industry” and names his estate as one of the defendants.

Related article A year after the Titan tragedy, a sub is planning to go back to the Titanic to make a point

In addition to Rush and Nargeolet, the implosion killed British adventurer Hamish Harding and two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood.

The company that owns the  salvage rights to the Titanic  is in the midst of its first voyage to the wreckage site in years. Last month, RMS Titanic Inc., a Georgia-based firm, launched its first expedition to the site since 2010 from Providence, Rhode Island.

Nargeolet was director of underwater research for RMS Titanic. He was part of an expedition to visit the Titanic site in 1987, shortly after its location was discovered, and had supervised the salvage of innumerable Titanic artifacts, the lawsuit states. His estate’s attorneys described him as a seasoned veteran of underwater exploration who would not have participated in the Titan expedition if the company had been more transparent.

The lawsuit blames the implosion on the “persistent carelessness, recklessness and negligence” of OceanGate, Rush and others.

“Decedent Nargeolet may have died doing what he loved to do, but his death — and the deaths of the other Titan crew members — was wrongful,” the lawsuit states.

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78.43m  /  257'4 | abeking & rasmussen | 2010 / 2021.

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• Impressive 6,000nm range
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• Lloyds Register ✠100A1 SSC YACHT(P) MONO G6 ✠ LMC, UMS classification
• Interior design from Reymond Langton Design
• Airy beach club

The 78.43m/257'4" motor yacht 'Titan' was built by Abeking & Rasmussen in Germany at their Lemwerder shipyard. Her interior is styled by British designer design house Reymond Langton Design and she was completed in 2010. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Reymond Langton Design and she was last refitted in 2021.

Guest Accommodation

Titan has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 14 guests in 7 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 19 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

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Her features include a movie theatre, beach club, gym, deck jacuzzi, WiFi and air conditioning.

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Titan is built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks. Powered by twin diesel Caterpillar (3516B-TA) 16-cylinder 2,029hp engines running at 1600rpm, she comfortably cruises at 15 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 16 knots with a range of up to 6,000 nautical miles from her 235,000 litre fuel tanks at 13 knots. Titan features at-anchor stabilizers providing exceptional comfort levels. Her water tanks store around 40,000 Litres of fresh water. She was built to Lloyds Register ✠100A1 SSC YACHT(P) MONO G6 ✠ LMC, UMS classification society rules.

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Superyacht Titan has been launched on May 21 by Abeking & Rasmussen in Germany on the banks of the river Weser. Titan is the third yacht in their 78m series. With a length of 78.43m the Titan yacht is one of the largest superyachts in the world – gaining a placing about midway in the Top 100 largest yachts. Motor yacht Titan has her exterior styling created by Reymond Langton, who also designed the two other superyachts in the 78m series.

As mentioned Titan’s exterior as well as interior design was created by Reymond & Langton Design. The naval architecture was completed by A&R’s in house engineering department.  Her short specification is length overall: 257 ft (78,43 m) with a beam of 40,7 ft. (12,40 m).

Eminence - The Titan Yacht Sistership

Yacht Eminence is the first yacht launched in the Abeking & Rasmussen 78 metre series. She was an impressive luxury yacht with a unusual and unique beige hull and she was launched in 2008. Motor yacht C2 with a blue hull was launched in 2009 and the second of the Abeking & Rasmussen 78 series.

Yacht Titan, the third superyacht, was launched today and she has a grey hull, built from steel, with a white superstructure which was constructed in aluminium. Unlike her sister-ships luxury yacht Titan has some minor customisation in the profile look of her sundeck and radar mast areas. Titan can also be distinguished with her large doors which have been positioned on the side part of the forward full beam area. These doors are likely to be for water toy and tender side garages. Abeking are known for designing and building very large transom hatches on their modern motor yachts as they operate two well proven tender launching systems actually developed by A&R. This allows the yacht to employ smooth launching and recovering of the ship tender even whilst under way, or when approaching a anchorage or harbour.

The Abeking & Rasmussen 78 m Yacht series

Yacht Titan is likely to have similar specifications to Eminence, which has two 1492 kW Caterpillar main engines which give a very respectable speed of 16.5 knots. She was also built according to Lloyds Register of Shipping and MCA standards.

More information on the Titan yacht is pending including a full specification, photos and further images.

Motor yacht Titan will be delivered officially to her owner later in the 2010 summer after further finishing and sea tests. CharterWorld will keep you updated.

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• A $100 million superyacht owned by Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov is heading for the Suez Canal.
• After leaving the Suez Canal, it'll probably go to Turkey, a maritime data scientist told Bloomberg.
• Turkey is considered a safe haven for oligarchs' yachts as the government hasn't sanctioned Russia.

A sanctioned Russian oligarch's $100 million superyacht is making a beeline for the Suez Canal but will likely head to safe Turkish waters, Bloomberg reported.

Alexander Abramov , cofounder of Russian steelmaker Evraz, owns the 80-meter luxury vessel named Titan, according to SuperYacht Fan .

Data from Marine Traffic , a ship-tracking site, shows that Titan left Dubai port on April 22 and was sailing off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea at the time of writing. The yacht's destination was listed as Suez Canal, Egypt, per Marine Traffic.

Titan will probably make its way to Turkey after exiting the Suez Canal, Jerome Weiss, a maritime data scientist at analytics firm Spire Global, told Bloomberg.

Turkey has become a popular destination for Russian oligarchs' yachts because the government hasn't sanctioned Russia over its war in Ukraine. This means the oligarchs' assets are at less risk of being seized. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has previously criticized the sanctions imposed on Russia but has also backed Ukraine.

Yachts owned by billionaires Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska have docked in Turkish ports after sanctions were levied against the men. Both Abramovich's superyachts , worth $1 billion combined, have remained in Turkish waters since late March.

Abramov was among the 67 Russian oligarchs who were sanctioned by the Australian government in early April for "their role in Russia's unprovoked, unjust and illegal invasion of Ukraine," per a statement .

The steel tycoon, who has an estimated net worth of $7.3 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index , has not yet been put on US, UK, or EU sanctions lists. 

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Estate of French explorer who died in Titan submersible sues OceanGate

The estate of a French explorer killed along with others in the implosion of the deep-sea submersible Titan last year has sued the company that built it and embarked on the deadly trip to the Titanic wreckage.

The lawsuit, filed by the administrator of the estate of Paul-Henri Nargeolet in Washington state, names that company, OceanGate Inc.; the estate of its co-founder and CEO, Stockton Rush; and other companies. It seeks more than $50 million.

It argues Rush used carbon fiber for the craft's hull, a material not previously used in submersibles; that he refused certification that could have provided the outside expertise that could have prevented the tragedy; and that those aboard most likely would have known they were about to die.

Nargeolet, Rush and three other people died when the submersible, which was attempting to reach the wreckage of the Titanic, imploded in June 2023 . One of the dead was 19 years old .

"Nargeolet may have died doing what he loved to do, but his death — and the deaths of the other TITAN crew members — was wrongful," says the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in King County.

"The catastrophic implosion that claimed Nargeolet’s life was due directly to the persistent carelessness, recklessness and negligence" of OceanGate, Rush and the other defendants, it says.

The lawsuit alleges OceanGate and others ignored warnings from deep-sea diving experts and engineers about the Titan.

The suit argues that modern commercial crewed submersibles for deep-sea exploration are generally made from titanium — but that Rush believe titanium was unnecessarily heavy and directed that the hull be made from carbon fiber .

Rush also declined to have the sub certified by DNV, a classification organization that advises the maritime industry on safety.

Because of that choice by Rush, "there were no independent or third-party sources for information or assurance" before the fateful voyage, the suit says.

It was not immediately clear Wednesday whether OceanGate had an attorney representing it in the civil suit. The company’s website lists no contact information, and it has a message that reads “OceanGate has suspended all exploration and commercial operations.”

The disappearance of the sub on June 18, 2023, sparked a frantic search to rescue its crew, and multiple countries sent resources to help the U.S. Coast Guard-led effort. The Coast Guard eventually said debris had been located, and human remains have been found and returned to land .

The Titan had been trying to reach the wreckage of the Titanic, which is on the sea floor of the Atlantic Ocean, around 12,500 feet, or 2.3 miles, deep.

Nargeolet was an experienced diver known as “Mr. Titanic,” and he had completed 37 dives to the famous wreckage over his career. OceanGate hired him to help guide the Titan at the wreckage site because of his familiarity with it, the suit says.

OceanGate suspended all exploration and commercial operations after the disaster.

The Coast Guard opened a Marine Board of Investigation into the implosion to determine its cause. A public hearing is scheduled for Sept. 16 .

Also killed in the implosion were British billionaire Hamish Harding and prominent Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his  19-year-old son, Suleman .

The lawsuit also alleges the chilling detail that the crew would have been aware that the sub was about to implode.

Carbon fiber makes a crackling noise under pressure, and Rush installed an “acoustic safety system” that would detect that crackling and alert the pilot, the lawsuit says.

"While the exact cause of failure may never be determined, experts agree that the TITAN’s crew would have realized exactly what was happening," the suit says.

"RUSH’s vaunted 'acoustic safety system' would have alerted the crew that the carbon-fiber hull was cracking under extreme pressure — prompting the pilot to release weight and attempt to abort," it says. "Common sense dictates that the crew were well aware they were going to die, before dying."

The chair of the Marine Board of Investigation, retired Coast Guard Capt. Jason D. Neubauer, told the New York Times in June that his team had “found no evidence” the people on the Titan were aware the craft was about to implode or that they would die.

The suit says that the amount of damages is not precisely known but that it is at least more than $50 million.

Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.

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Winning Lawsuit Against Titan Sub Owner Could Be Difficult, Experts Say

A lawsuit stemming from the Titan submersible disaster felt inevitable, but winning a big judgment against the owner of the vessel could be very difficult, legal experts said on Thursday.

The family of French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, one of five people who died aboard the submersible in June 2023, filed a more than $50 million civil lawsuit against submersible owner OceanGate earlier this week. Nargeolet’s estate said in the lawsuit that the crew aboard the sub experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the sub imploded and its operator was guilty of gross negligence.

Now comes the hard part — winning in court.

Legal experts said Nargeolet’s estate may get some money from the lawsuit, but it could be a fraction of the amount sought. It’s also unclear if there will be any money available, as OceanGate has since shut down operations, they said.

Some say that the passengers onboard the Titan assumed risk when they got aboard an experimental submersible headed for the Titanic wreck site.

“They made choices to go do this, and it seems to me it was a 50/50 shot anyway it was going to work,” said John Perlstein, a personal injury lawyer in California and Nevada. “They bear responsibility too, as well as the guy who built and piloted this thing.”

Nargeolet’s estate filed its lawsuit on Tuesday in King County, Washington, as OceanGate was a Washington-based company. A spokesperson for OceanGate declined to comment on aspects of the lawsuit.

Attorneys for Nargeolet’s estate are hinging their case in part on the emotional and mental pain of the passengers on board the Titan. The attorneys, with the Buzbee Law Firm in Houston, Texas, said that the crew “were well aware they were going to die, before dying,” since they dropped weights about 90 minutes into the dive.

But that could be hard to prove, said Richard Daynard, distinguished professor of law at Northeastern University in Boston. Attorneys will have a difficult time demonstrating that the implosion and resulting deaths were not instantaneous, he said.

It could, however, be possible to prove negligence, Daynard said. But even that doesn’t guarantee a big-money judgment, he said.

“A settlement is a possibility, but presumably if the case has a very tiny chance of winning, the settlement will be a tiny fraction of the amount sought,” Daynard said.

The Titan made its final dive on June 18, 2023, and lost contact with its support vessel about two hours later. After a search and rescue mission that drew international attention, the Titan wreckage was found on the ocean floor about 984 feet (300 meters) off the bow of the Titanic, about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland.

OceanGate CEO and cofounder Stockton Rush was operating the Titan when it imploded. In addition to Rush and Nargeolet, the implosion killed British adventurer Hamish Harding and two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood. No one on board survived.

It wasn’t surprising to see a lawsuit filed stemming from the Titan case, but Nargeolet’s estate could be suing a company that has little assets, said Ted Spaulding, an Atlanta-based personal injury attorney. He characterized the lawsuit as a “Hail Mary” attempt at relief.

“I’m not sure there is anyone else to sue but OceanGate in this case. Maybe they could have sued the CEO and co-founder of the company Stockton Rush if he had assets, but he died on the submersible too,” Spaulding said.

Nargeolet was a veteran explorer known as “Mr. Titanic” who participated in 37 dives to the Titanic site, the most of any diver in the world, according to the lawsuit. His death was mourned around the world by members of the undersea exploration community.

There is an ongoing, high-level investigation into the Titan’s implosion, which the U.S. Coast Guard quickly convened after the disaster. A key public hearing that is part of the investigation is scheduled to take place in September.

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Titan Submersible Crew Member’s Family Files a $50 Million Lawsuit

The family of Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French explorer who died with four other crew members on the OceanGate Titan craft, is suing the vessel’s manufacturer.

By Hank Sanders

The family of a French explorer who was aboard the Titan submersible, the vessel that imploded last year during its failed mission to explore the Titanic wreckage, killing all five people aboard, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the craft’s manufacturer, OceanGate Expeditions.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French explorer whose deep knowledge of the sunken ship earned him the nickname “Mr. Titanic, ” was hired to assist OceanGate, a Washington State-based ocean exploration company, during the Titan’s journey to the Titanic.

But the company and its founder, Richard Stockton Rush III , who also died aboard the vessel, misled Mr. Nargeolet about how the submersible was built, according to the lawsuit filed in King County, Wash.

“Mr. Rush confessed to a ‘mission specialist’ on one Titanic voyage that he had ‘gotten the carbon fiber used to make the Titan at a big discount from Boeing because it was past its shelf life for use in airplanes,’” according to the lawsuit, which the Houston-based law firms Buzbee Law Firm and Schecter, Shaffer & Harris said was filed on Tuesday.

The lawsuit also accuses Mr. Rush of negligence for a variety of reasons, including falsely advertising a “crackling noise” that was said to be an advanced “safety” feature to alert crew members when to abort a mission. In reality, the lawsuit says that sound “is nothing more than the detection of a possibly imminent failure of the carbon fiber hull.”

The suit, which the firms said was the first to be filed against OceanGate over the implosion, is seeking more than $50 million.

Representatives for OceanGate, Mr. Rush’s widow and the other four defendants — one employee of OceanGate and four businesses that the lawsuit says assisted in manufacturing the submersible — did not immediately respond to emails requesting comment.

OceanGate Expeditions said on its website that it “has suspended all exploration and commercial operations.”

Mr. Nargeolet’s family could not be reached.

On June 18, 2023, roughly 90 minutes after the submersible and its five crew members began descending into the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean where the wreck of the Titanic rests on the sea floor, the submersible dropped its weights “indicating that the team had aborted” the journey, the lawsuit says.

Investigators said the vessel’s carbon fiber and titanium body imploded under the immense pressure of the ocean as it dived. Exactly how the vessel imploded has yet to be determined. Hamish Harding , Suleman Dawood and his father, Shahzada Dawood , also died.

Since the tragedy, deep sea explorers have been pushing for greater international regulation to bar another disaster. They want to close the gap that OceanGate exploited in eschewing the voluntary safety certifications the industry uses to reduce the substantial risks for deep divers.

For years, starting in 2018, Mr. Rush brushed aside warnings that the sub’s maverick design was destined to fail.

Before entering the Titan submersible, crew members had to sign a waiver acknowledging that they could die during the exploration. But the lawsuit says that the release was “insufficient” and did not disclose all of the risks of the submersible.

The lawsuit has calculated millions of dollars in damages from the emotional and financial damages that Mr. Nargeolet’s death caused his family and his suffering before his death.

“Common sense dictates that the crew were well aware they were going to die, before dying,” the lawsuit says.

“We are hopeful that through this lawsuit we can get answers for the family as to exactly how this happened, who all were involved, and how those involved could allow this to happen,” Tony Buzbee, one of the lawyers bringing the case, said in a statement.

Hank Sanders is a Times reporter and a member of the 2024-25 Times Fellowship class, a program for journalists early in their careers. More about Hank Sanders

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Update: family of victim killed in Titan submersible disaster sues OceanGate for $50M

The family of French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, one of the passengers who died in the fatal Titan disaster, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $50,000,000 against American tourism and expeditions company OceanGate.

Accusing the submarine operator of gross negligence, the lawsuit claims the waiver and release "failed to disclose many key, relevant risk factors, [...] regarding the design and operation of Titan or the materials used in its construction." In particular, it mentioned the submarine's carbon fibre hull, which was reportedly "not properly tested for integrity". 

The complaint goes on to suggest the distressing conditions the passengers on board may have experienced in their final moments: "The crew may well have heard the carbon fibre’s crackling noise grow more intense as the weight of the water pressed on Titan’s hull. The crew lost communications and perhaps power as well. By experts’ reckoning, they would have continued to descend, in full knowledge of the vessel’s irreversible failures, experiencing terror and mental anguish prior to the Titan ultimately imploding."

OceanGate has so far declined to comment on the lawsuit, which was filed last week in King County, Washington.

What happened during the Titan submersible disaster?

On 18 June 2023, the 6.7-metre submersible Titan imploded during a descent to the Titanic wreck at 3,800 metres below sea level. Operated by OceanGate, Titan had five passengers on board who subsequently all died from the sub's violent inwards collapse.

Pakistani investor Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, British businessman Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush were the victims aboard the deep-water vessel when the incident occurred. 

Titan was expected to take around two and a half hours to reach the wreckage but soon lost contact with its mothership, Polar Prince, kickstarting a search operation for the missing submarine. The news grabbed the attention of media outlets across the globe and updates trickled out across the week, rocking the yachting and submersible industry.

The US Coast Guard convened a Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) into the loss of the Titan submersible and the investigation is ongoing. While many theories and studies have circulated as to the cause of the Titan submarine tragedy – including microscopic imperfections in the carbon fibre hull – no conclusion has been reached as of yet. 

Earlier this year (2024), a purported transcript of communications between the sub and mothership that went viral last year was declared to be fake. “I’m confident it’s a false transcript,” said the chairman of the MBI, Captain Jason D. Neubauer. “It was made up.”

Titan disaster timeline:

Sunday 18 june 2023.

08:00: The Titan submersible was launched from its mothership, Polar Prince (previously CCGS Sir Humphrey Gilbert). 09:45: Contact between the mothership and the submersible was lost. The U.S. Navy also noticed “an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion”. 15:00: Titan was scheduled to resurface but did not. 17:40: The U.S. Coast Guard was notified.

Monday 19 June

The search for Titan began.

Tuesday 20 June

Speculation began surrounding sonar detecting “banging” noises in the search area. These are later determined to be natural ocean sounds.

Thursday 22 June

Debris and remains of the sub were found around 500 metres from the bow of the Titanic. Citing this, the Coast Guard announced that the submersible had suffered a “catastrophic implosion.”

Sunday 25 June

The Coast Guard arranged a Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) to determine what happened to the Titan.

Wednesday 28 June 

Wreckage of the Titan was brought to St. John's, a city on Newfoundland island off Canada's Atlantic coast.

Sunday July 2

OceanGate announced it is ceasing operations.

Has there been an inquiry?

An investigation into the incident was launched by the US Coast Guard in June last year, which convened a Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) into the loss of the Titan submersible. The MBI examined "whether there is need for new laws or regulations, or amendment or repeal of existing laws or regulations, to prevent the recurrence of the casualty". 

The Coast Guard received debris and evidence recovered from the seafloor at the site of the Titan submersible (28 June 2023). Later in the year, marine safety engineers with the MBI launched a follow-up salvage mission which recovered additional presumed human remains that were carefully recovered from within Titan’s debris. The evidence was transported for analysis by US medical professionals (4 October 2023). 

A couple of months on, the US Coast Guard, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) and the French Marine Casualty Investigation Authority (BEAmer) conducted an evidence review of recovered Titan submersible debris in Newport, Rhode Island (8 November 2023).

Jason Neubauer, Coast Guard chair for the Titan Marine Board of Investigation (MBI), said:  "This effort underscores the importance of international and interagency coordination in marine casualty investigations. Our partnerships with NTSB, TSB and the French Marine Casualty Investigation Authority enabled a thorough examination of the international incident, promoting safety and transparency."

A public hearing that will address the tragedy is scheduled to take place in September 2024. Until then, the MBI will continue its evidence analysis and witness interviews as part of the ongoing investigation.

Did Titan have warnings from experts?

Speaking on a special episode of the Big BOAT Interview alongside Rob McCallum, co-founder of EYOS Expeditions , Triton Submarines' co-founder Patrick Lahey shared his first public comments on the Titan submarine disaster. He said the disaster was an "experimental monstrosity that should never have carried people".

Lahey recalls pleading with his long-time friend and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who was killed in the incident, not to dive with OceanGate. "I tried to do everything I could to discourage him from going out there. I know many people that knew him did the same thing."

McCallum also discusses his now well-publicised email exchange with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who also died on the dive, warning him that he was courting disaster by taking the uncertified Titan submersible to such extreme depths.

"He was completely dismissive," McCallum says. "The minute I found out it was going to be an unclassed vehicle, that's when the alarm bells rang. But perhaps the biggest red flag of all was when a senior member of the OceanGate team wrote a report laying out the 26 or 27 things wrong with the sub and suggested solutions to those problems and he was silenced." 

McCallum also relates the final time he met Rush, at a dinner, when, "I told him in no uncertain terms that he was doing the wrong thing".

Lahey also met Rush, and toured the OceanGate submersible while it was being tested in the Bahamas. "There were glaring defects. I made this list of things for them to address. But when I looked at it, I thought I didn't have to worry too much as there was no way it was ever going to see the light of day."

Both Lahey and McCallum underline the point that to prevent similar incidents, all submersibles should be subject to third-party certification.

"It's essential," says Lahey. "If people insist on [accreditation] you can be assured that the craft that you're getting in has been reviewed independently by a group of professionals and according to a set of rules, it will be safe. If you look at the track record of certified craft, it is without peer – 50-plus years of absolute safety."

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Doomed crew on Titan sub knew 'they were going to die,' lawsuit says

The five people aboard a submersible excursion to the Titanic likely experienced "terror and anguish" moments before the vessel imploded deep in the North Atlantic last year, killing all aboard, according to a $50 million lawsuit filed by the family of a victim.

The submersible Titan disappeared on June 18, 2023 , while making a dive to explore the Titanic's wreckage. The incident prompted a multination search for the vessel that ended four days later when the Coast Guard announced the Titan debris had been found and bodies recovered.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet was director of underwater research for the Titanic and had made dozens of trips to the site, more than 2 miles beneath the ocean's surface. The wrongful death lawsuit claims Nargeolet would not have boarded the Titan had the submersible's builder, OceanGate, disclosed crucial information about technical problems with the vessel.

"While the exact cause of failure may never be determined, experts agree that the Titan's crew would have realized what was happening," the lawsuit contends. "Common sense dictates that the crew were well aware they were going to die, before dying."

Tony Buzbee, a lawyer for the family, said in a statement the family hopes the lawsuit will allow them to learn "exactly how this happened, who all were involved, and how those involved could allow this to happen."

◾ OceanGate CEO and co-founder Stockton Rush, who was operating the Titan when it imploded, also died along with British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman.

◾ OceanGate posted a note on its website that it had suspended all exploration and commercial operations. The Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the implosion, and a public hearing is scheduled for Sept. 16.

Catastrophic Titan sub disaster: A year later the search for answers continues.

Crew had 'full knowledge' that Titan was doomed

The lawsuit claims the Titan began dropping weights about 90 minutes into its dive in an apparent, ill-fated effort to return to the surface.

"The crew may well have heard the carbon fiber's crackling noise grow more intense as the weight of the water pressed on Titan's hull," the lawsuit says. "By experts' reckoning, they would have continued to descend, in full knowledge of the vessel's irreversible failures, experiencing terror and mental anguish prior to the Titan ultimately imploding."

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada and the French Marine Casualty Investigation Authority are working with the Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board and are conducting "parallel" investigations.

What happened to the Titan submersible?

The Titan's  trip , expected to take two hours, began at 8 a.m. about 435 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. An hour and 45 minutes later, the submersible's support ship lost contact with it. At 3 p.m., the Titan failed to surface. The  frantic search  and rescue operation that ensued  transfixed the world .

On June 22, the U.S.  Coast Guard announced the discovery of a debris field .  The vessel likely suffered a "catastrophic implosion" and OceanGate announced all occupants of the Titan had been lost.

"The case brought by the Nargeolet family alleges a troubled history of the doomed submersible," Buzbee said.

Current Titanic expedition would have included Nargeolet

The Titan tragedy has not ended the interest in exploring the Titanic. In July, RMS Titanic Inc.  launched  Titanic Expedition 2024 , a crew including videographers, photographers, scientists and historians, from Providence, Rhode Island. Nargeolet was scheduled to participate in the current Titanic expedition.

No crew members were visiting the wreckage, but two remotely operated vehicles were sent 12,500 feet deep into the Atlantic. The cameras would survey the sunken ship and take high-resolution images to “preserve the existing state of the site digitally," the company said. The exploration team said in a social media post this week that it was headed home.

"Battling some rough seas today," the team said in a social media post this week, adding: "The waves are relentless, but the  #TITANICExpedition2024  crew is strong."

The Titanic also brought tragedy

The Titanic captured the nation's imagination in 1912, the largest and most well-appointed cruise ship of its time. But the ship hit an iceberg on April 15 of that year and quickly sank, killing more than 1,500. About 700 passengers were rescued. The wreck was discovered on Sept. 1, 1985, about 400 miles from the coast of Newfoundland.

Hundreds of books have been written about the ship. James Cameron's film "Titanic" was released in 1997 and is among the highest-grossing films of all time.

Contributing: Elizabeth Weise , George Petras and Janet Loehrke