Titanic Tour Went Sour as Business Leaders Went Missing in the North Atlantic Ocean

Five individuals were on a trip in the submersible vessel that went missing in the North Atlantic-they went on an adventure to see the Titanic shipwreck. Some of them are known to be world-renowned business leaders. 


One of them is Hamish Harding, the founder of investment firm Action Group and an ardent adventurer- he was among those aboard the submarine that went missing at sea. The 58-year-old Briton has three Guinness World Records, holding records for the longest time spent on a single dive across the deepest portion of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, and the fastest plane navigation of Earth via the North and South Poles.


In the list of those who are missing is Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate Expeditions, the company that organised the expedition to the Titanic- he was also on board in the missing Titanic. 


Also, members of one of Pakistan's most prominent business families, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, were also on board, their relatives announced in a statement. According to sources, Paul-Henry Nargeolet a Frenchman sub’s pilot was also on board.


The US Coast Guard claimed it got a communication from Titan's command ship on Sunday indicating that contact had been lost. As part of the search, planes are out in search of those missing in the ocean. The Titan, according to OceanGate's website, includes a life-support system that can keep a five-person crew alive for 96 hours. Here's some more information about the cast:

Names Of Individuals Involved in the Missing Titanic Submarine

The following are names of the individuals who went missing on a trip in the submersible vessel that went missing in the North Atlantic. Investinport also added some things you don’t know about them.

Hamish Harding

Harding is a successful businessman who formed Action Group, a private equity firm based in the United Kingdom and Dubai, in 2002. Action Aviation is part of the company that provides aircraft brokerage, management, and finance. In March 2021, he set a world record for the longest duration spent at the bottom of the ocean when he spent 4 hours 15 minutes in a submergence vehicle on the sea floor of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. This corresponds to a depth of 10,930 metres (35,850 feet). In July 2019, he completed his quickest circumnavigation via both poles in 46 hours and 40 minutes. He was the pilot and mission commander.


Harding also holds the Guinness World Record for the longest distance traversed along the lowest region of the ocean, 4.634 kilometres (2.88 miles), which he accomplished during the Mariana Trench dive in 2021. Last year, he travelled to the edge of space with Blue Origin LLC, an American business founded by Amazon.com Inc.'s Jeff Bezos. Harding earned a degree in natural sciences and chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge. He is married and the father of two children.


Stockton Rush

Stockton Rush, the president of OceanGate planned to make the Titanic more accessible by taking visitors aboard his privately owned five-person submarine. The initial plan was to bring paying tourists to the site on weekly visits from May to September, combining the trips with research operations that allowed passengers to participate as citizen scientists.


Rush, who enhanced inherited fortune through angel and startup investing, has a degree in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Rush, who is now in his early 60s, was the world's youngest jet transport-rated pilot when, at the age of 19, he got his Captain's rating at the United Airlines Jet Training Institute in 1981, according to his profile on OceanGate website.


He collaborated with Boeing Co. on an early design of the Titan carbon-fibre submarine, as well as NASA. He has already had missions to the Titanic disaster site cancelled because his submarine was struck by lightning in 2018, ruining its electrical system and scuttling the operation. A second effort failed the following year due to problems with the "mother ship" used to convey the team and equipment.


While Rush first aimed for space and fashioned his attempts after Star Trek's Captain Kirk, he later decided that his quest to uncover new lifeforms and go where no man had gone before was more likely to be found in the water.

Shahzada and Suleman Dawood

The Dawoods are from one of Pakistan's most distinguished families, which confirmed their presence on the Titan in a statement released Tuesday. 


"Contact with their submersible vessel has been lost, and there is little information available." "A joint rescue effort led by multiple government agencies and deep-sea companies is underway to reestablish contact with the submersible and bring them back safely," it stated.


"We are grateful for the concern shown by our colleagues and friends and would like to ask everyone to pray for their safety while granting the family privacy at this time." The family is being cared after, and they are praying to Allah for the safe return of their family members."


Shahzada Dawood is the vice chairman of Engro Corp., which operates in industries ranging from fertilisers to power generation. He earned a law degree from the University of Buckingham in 1998 and a master's degree in textile marketing from Philadelphia University in 2000.

Paul Henry Nargeolet

Nargeolet is a world-renowned diver and the world's foremost authority on the Titanic wreckage and its 25-square-nautical-mile debris field. He is the director of underwater research for Experiential Media Group and RMS Titanic Inc., and he has made scores of submersible dives to the wreckage.


According to his biography on the E/M Group's website, he was born in Chamonix, France, and spent 13 years in Africa with his family before finishing his education in Paris and serving 22 years in the French Navy, reaching the rank of commander. After joining the French Institute for Research and Exploitation of the Sea in 1987, he oversaw the first Titanic recovery effort.


Nargeolet spoke with the Titanic Channel on what would happen if someone became trapped in the debris, stating that the cold would be one of the most dangerous elements and emphasising that explorers are aware of the dangers.


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