World-Record Breaker, Business Leaders Missing On Titanic Tour
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Missing Titanic submersible: The group includes Hamish Harding, founder of investment firm Action Group and an avid adventurer.
Five people are on board a submersible vessel that has gone missing in the North Atlantic during an expedition to the Titanic shipwreck.
The group includes Hamish Harding, founder of investment firm Action Group and an avid adventurer. The 58-year-old Briton holds three Guinness World Records, including the longest time spent traversing the deepest part of the ocean - the Mariana Trench - on a single dive, and the fastest navigation of Earth via the North and South Poles by plane.
Others on the missing Titan vessel include Stockton Rush, founder of OceanGate Expeditions, the company that put on the trip to the Titanic. Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, members of one of the most prominent business families in Pakistan, are also on board, their relatives confirmed in a statement. The pilot of the sub is Frenchman Paul Henry Nargeolet, according to reports.
Harding, whose birthday is this coming Saturday, wrote in a June 18 post on Instagram that this was likely to be the only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023 "due to the worst weather in Newfoundland in 40 years."
