Here’s what we know about the missing titanicsubmarine
British billionaire Hamish Harding is said to be among the passengers on board the submarine that went missing on a trip to view the Titanic wreckage.A five-person submersible vessel taking wealthy adventurers on a $250,000 trip to see the wreckage of the 1912 Titanic disaster 3,800m undersea is missing in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada.* HAMISH HARDING. The British billionaire and chair of aviation consultancy Action Aviation is among those missing, according to his stepson.
* SHAHZADA DAWOOD and his son SULEMAN. Their family have confirmed they are on board. Shahzada is vice chair of one of Pakistan's largest conglomerates, Engro Corporation, with investments in fertilisers, vehicle manufacturing, energy and digital technologies. According to the website of SETI, a California-based research institute of which he is a trustee, he lives in Britain with his wife and two children.
* PAUL-HENRI NARGEOLET. The 77-year-old French explorer, who media say is one of the five on board, is director of underwater research at a company that owns the rights to thewreck. A former commander in the French Navy, he was both a deep diver and a mine sweeper. After retiring from the navy, he led the first recovery expedition to thein 1987 and is a leading authority on the wreck site.
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