Shahzada Dawood, Hamish Harding: Who’s on missing Titanic sub?
Al JazeeraHere is what we know about the people on board of the five-person submersible vessel missing in the Atlantic Ocean. A five-person submersible vessel taking tourists on a trip to see the wreckage of the 1912 Titanic disaster 3.8km undersea is missing in the Atlantic Ocean off eastern coast of Canada and the United States. “Our first thoughts are with the crew members and the families of those onboard, and so we want to make sure that we have done absolutely everything that we can do to locate their family members and bring them home safe,” US Coast Guard official John Mauger said on Monday. Dubai-based Harding had posted on social media that he was proud to be heading to the Titanic as a “mission specialist”, adding: “Due to the worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023.” “The team on the sub has a couple of legendary explorers, some of have done over 30 dives to the RMS Titanic since the 1980s including PH Nargeolet,” he added. In a 2020 interview with France Bleu radio, he spoke of the dangers of deep diving, saying, “I am not afraid to die, I think it will happen one day.” Stockton Rush The founder and CEO of the vessel’s US-based operating company OceanGate was also on board the submersible, according to media reports.