Who are the five who died in the “catastrophic implosion” of the Titan bathyscaphe when it was going to explore the remains of the Titanic, the famous ocean liner that sunk more than a century ago? There are five of them, they all signed a document in which they assumed the risks of the expedition and that they could lose their lives. Apart from the promoter of these expeditions, among the deceased are several millionaires and fans of exclusive and extreme adventures.
The CEO of the company
The first passenger is Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate Expedition. This company offers Manned submersibles for researchers and explorers. He is also a founder and board member of the nonprofit organization, whose goal is to catalyze marine technology for new discoveries in marine science, history, and archaeology.
A millionaire explorer
British billionaire businessman and explorer Hamish Harding, 58, was another of the Titan’s five passengers. Harding himself published last Saturday on social networks that he would participate in the OceanGate immersion and that he had left St. Johns, in Newfoundland, on Friday.
In addition, he stressed that the mission in which he participates “is probably the first and only manned mission to the Titanic of 2023″ due to bad weather conditions.
Harding was an adventurer with three Guinness World Records, including the longest and deepest duration in the ocean in a crewed boat. “The submarine team counts with several legendary explorers who have made more than 30 dives to the ‘RMS Titanic’ since the 80s,” Harding said in the message. One of them would be Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
The greatest French expert on the Titanic
Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 73, he was considered one of the world’s leading experts on the Titanic. nargeolet spent more than two decades in the French Navy and became a commander. He retired in 1986 and joined the French Institute for Research and Exploitation of the Sea. In this role, he led the first Titanic recovery expedition in 1987.
According to The Irish Examiner, Nargeolet has “spent more time than anyone else” exploring the wreckage of the Titanic. In 2019, Nargeolet spoke about the slim chances of surviving in the event of an accident: “If you are 11 meters or 11 kilometers below, if something bad happens, the result is the same“.
A Pakistani businessman and his son
The other two passengers were Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood. They belong to one of the richest families in Pakistan. Dawood lived with his family in the UK. and sponsored the SETI Institute, whose mission is to explore and understand the origin of the universe.
Passengers assumed the risk of dying
OceanGate Expeditions was charging $250,000 for an eight-day adventure to see the wreckage of the ocean liner. All the participants signed a document whose first page made it clear that they assumed the risk of dying on the expedition. After the catastrophic end of his submarine, his future in this type of expedition is more than compromised.
El Titanic It is located about 600 kilometers from the coast of Newfoundland, in Canada, at a depth of 3,800 meters below the sea surface. Its shipwreck occurred in 1912 and resulted in more than 1,500 deaths, although the remains of the wreck were not located until 1985.
