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The company that owns the sole salvaging rights to the historic Titanic shipwreck is hosting a memorial service for its former employee and late Titan passenger Paul-Henri “PH” Nargeolet — a day after debuting its latest Titanic expo in Paris.

RMS Titanic Inc., which was granted exclusive rights to recover the artifacts from the Titanic wreck site, shared on social media that it’s set to host an event to honor Nargeolet on Wednesday from 1:30 to 2:30 EST.

There will be a private, in-person commemoration ceremony that will be closed to the public, though it will be livestreamed free to the public via RMS Titanic Inc.’s Facebook page “to provide an outlet for the world-wide Titanic and Oceanographic communities to remember our colleague and…

Hundreds of people have shared a Facebook post with the caption “Here are images of the Debris found of the Titanic Submarine” alongside a picture of a pair of shoes and a sea creature on the ocean floor and other pictures of what appears to be a wrecked vessel on the seabed.

The pictures have emerged following confirmation from authorities that the Titan tourist submersible, which went missing during an expedition to the Titanic shipwreck, had imploded, killing all five on board. 

But the image of the shoes does not show debris of the submersible—it was actually taken at the Titanic site almost 20 years ago.

The image appears on the photography website Alamy, with the caption: “This 2004 image provided by the University of Rhode Island’s Institute for…