Who are the five passengers aboard the missing Titanic sub

The five people aboard a missing submersible that toured the Titanic’s ruins include a space-faring British billionaire, one of Pakistan’s richest men, and a retired French navy commander who led the first expedition to the site of the Titanic. “unsinkable” ship. Who are the five passengers aboard the missing Titanic sub?

The ship lost contact with its support ship Sunday about an hour and 45 minutes after descending into the wreckage of the 1912 disaster, 12,500 feet underwater about 370 miles off the Newfoundland coast.

Who are the five passengers aboard the missing Titanic sub

Hamish Harding

Aircraft sales executive and Guinness World Records holder Hamish Harding, 58, is among the missing, according to family members and social media posts by the British billionaire.

Harding had previously flown into space on a Blue Origin mission, accompanied former astronaut Buzz Aldrin to the South Pole, and been on a flight mission that visited both Earth’s poles in record time. The Dubai-based explorer wrote on Instagram on Sunday that he was on OceanGate Expeditions’ third tour of the famed ill-fated ship as a “mission specialist.”

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He and other guests had paid $250,000 each for the privilege. “Due to the worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only crewed mission to the Titanic in 2023,” his post read. “A weather window just opened and tomorrow we will try to dive.”

Shanzada and Sulaiman Dawud

Also aboard the five-person boat were Shanzada Dawood, 48, and her son Sulaiman, 19, according to family members. Dawood is Vice President of Pakistani energy technology and manufacturing conglomerate Engro Corporation and sits on the Global Advisory Board of King Charles’s charity, Prince’s Trust International.

He is also a trustee of the California-based SETI research institute, whose website claims that he lives in the UK with Sulaiman and his wife and daughter.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet

Experienced deep diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, is also on board the ship. Nargeolet led the first expedition to the Titanic wreck in 1987 after retiring from the French navy, where he served as commander.

Nargeolet, known as “Mr. Titanic,” made a foreboding comment about his many trips to the site in 2019 when asked by the Irish Examiner if he ever freaked out.

“When you’re in very deep water, you’re dead before you know anything is going on, so it’s just not a problem,” Nargeolet said. A year later, he told France Bleu radio: “I’m not afraid of dying, I think it will happen one day.”
stockton fever

Completing the missing team is Stockton Rush, 61, founder and CEO of Everett, Washington-based OceanGate, according to news reports. Rush became the world’s youngest jet transport pilot in 1981, when he was just 19 years old, according to his biography. “It’s an incredibly beautiful wreck,” Rush told Britain’s Sky News of the Titanic earlier this year.

“You can see inside, we dove in and we saw the grand staircase and we saw some of the chandeliers that were still hanging.” A frantic Coast Guard search is underway for the missing 22-foot Titan submersible, which, unlike a submarine, cannot be launched from a port and must rely on a support ship.Read More…….