Who were the five people who lost their lives in the Titan Submersible?

The Titan submersible saw a tragic end. There were five people in the vessel and they experienced a sad demise due to the tragedy. The Titan submersible lost contact with the support ship at the time of the dive to the Titanic wreckage site in the North Atlantic. The U.S. Coast Guard and the OceanGate Expeditions declared all five people on board were believed to be dead.

Here are the names of the passengers who were there on the craft:

Hamish Harding

A British businessman, explorer, and Guinness World Record holder, Hamish Harding was the chairman of Action Aviation. The 58-year-old holds numerous Guinness World Records, one of which is for having the longest duration spent traversing the very deepest part of the ocean on a single dive. On Saturday, Hamish Harding expressed on his Facebook page his joy and pride to announce he is now a part of OceanGate’s mission.

Action Aviation, the company he chairs, is an air operations and sales company based in Dubai. Earlier, Harding had gone to space through a mission by the Blue Origin rocket company by Jeff Bezos.

The list of his achievements does not end here. Mr. Hamish Harding was also a part of the venture to reintroduce cheetahs to India. He has achieved a world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the planet through both the geographic poles by plane.

Paul-Henry Nargeolet

Paul Henry Nargeolet is a notable maritime expert. He had been on 35 dives and more to the Titanic wreck site. He was the director of underwater research for the American company that salvage rights to the wreck, the RMS Titanic Inc.Between 1987 and 2010, the company successfully conducted a total of eight research. The maritime expert was 77 years old.

Paul Henry Nargeolet was often known as “Mr. Titanic.” This is due to his immense knowledge of the wreckage of the ship and the environs. Paul Henry Nargeolet was also the author of the book titled, “In the Depths of the Titanic”, published by HarperCollins France. The director of the movie “Titanic” and Mr. Paul Henry Nargeolet’s friend, James Cameron called Mr. Nargeolet a “legendary submersible pilot.”

Paul Henry Nargeolet has had a myriad of dives to the site, including earlier expeditions on the Titan. In the year 2022, in one such expedition, Mr. Nargeolet aided with the discovery of an “extraordinary biodiverse abyssal ecosystem on a previously unknown basalt formation near the Titanic,” as per OceanGate Expeditions.

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Shahzada Dawood

48-year-old, British-Pakistani businessman.

Suleman Dawood

The nineteen-year-old son of Shahzada Dawood

Stockton Rush

The founder and Chief executive of OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush was piloting the Titan submersible.

In an earlier interview, Stockton Rush expressed that growing up, he always wished to be an astronaut. However, post his aerospace and engineering degree in the year 1984 from Princeton, he wanted to be a fighter pilot. “I had this epiphany that I didn’t want — it wasn’t about going to space,” Mr. Stockton Rush once said. Instead, he clarified that it was all about exploring; he wished to find new life forms. In a statement, he expressed that he wished to be something like Captain Kirk. He also expressed that he did not want to sit back like a passenger. The ocean, as he said, is the universe.

Stockton Rush founded OceanGate Expeditions, the private company that operated the Titan Submersible. OceanGate is situated in Everett, Washington. Stockton Rush founded the company in the year 2009.

Here’s a bit more about Stockton Rush. In the year 1981, Stockton Rush became the world’s youngest jet-transport-rated pilot, at just 19 years of age. In a statement to the magazine, Rush, in the year 2017 expressed that he wished to be the first person on Mars.

Stockton Rush was the descendant of one of the most famous families of San Fransisco. From his father’s side of the family, he was descended from two signers of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush, and Richard Stockton.

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