Who are the 5 explorers who went missing while exploring the Titanic?

SKĐS - Five wealthy men pursue the adventure of exploring the legendary Titanic ship in the deep sea. Their passion for exploration has brought them together on the fateful submarine Titan, which is still mysteriously missing, with little life-sustaining oxygen left.

The missing Titan submersible is currently the focus of a search and rescue operation in the North Atlantic conducted jointly by the US and Canadian coast guards and rescue forces.

The legendary Titanic has long been the inspiration and passion of many archaeologists, scientists and novelists. Not only has it been featured in movies with the immortal love story between Jack and Rose in Titanic, but it has also inspired many explorers and adventurers who still want to visit the ruins at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. And the 5 explorers on the Titan submersible are among them.

From left to right, the five explorers on the Titan submersible include billionaire Hamish Harding, father and son Suleman and Shahzada Dawood, aerospace engineer Stockton Rush and Titanic expert Paul Henry Nargeolet.

On board the missing Titan submersible were five famous people. First was aerospace engineer Stockon Rush - CEO of OceanGate Expedition, which organizes tours of the Titanic. He is a resident of Seattle and also the pilot of the submersible. Next was British billionaire Hamish Harding, who lives in the UAE. Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman own a famous business empire in Pakistan. Finally, the person nicknamed "Mr. Titanic", sailor Paul Henry Nargeolet is an expert who has spent many years researching the Titanic.

The five men on board the submersible are now at the center of a race to rescue them before their oxygen runs out. Their passion for exploring the ocean and the remotest corners of the planet has brought them together on this fateful voyage. The explorers have anticipated dangers on their journey that few others can touch.

The Origin of the Titanic Adventure Tour Under the Atlantic Ocean

In early 2019, aerospace engineer Stockton Rush invented a submersible that could take people on an underwater tour of the Titanic.

Researchers have found that the Titanic is slowly decomposing due to metal-eating bacteria. Therefore, space technologist Stockton Rush decided that it was necessary to film the legendary ship before it completely disappeared, at the same time helping adventure travel enthusiasts to see the Titanic with their own eyes.

The carbon fiber submersible his team built was called Titan. “It was a life-changing experience,” Rush said.

Four years later, Rush and four others with a passion for exploration boarded the Titan submarine to begin their adventure.

Setting off from St. John's, Newfoundland, five explorers set out to explore the remains of the luxury cruise ship Titanic, which sank 111 years ago.

With a ticket price of 250,000 USD per person, this is OceanGate's third trip to visit the Titanic at the bottom of the sea.

The submarine carrying a crew of five began its descent to the ocean floor on Sunday morning (June 18) from the mothership Polar Prince. It was not until 1 hour and 45 minutes later that Polar Prince lost contact with the Titan submersible.

Once flew into space, now wants to conquer the ocean

Billionaire Hamish Harding is the founder of UAE-based aviation company Action Aviation. He is an avid explorer who wants to see the world at all its extremes.

Last year, the billionaire was a passenger on a commercial flight into space organized by Blue Origin, a private space company run by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos.

Having explored space, Harding longed to see the vast, dark expanse of the ocean floor, to see the world from a different angle.

The five people on board the Titan submersible to explore the Titanic were all adventurous people. When they boarded the submersible, they anticipated the dangers that might come.

To satisfy that desire, billionaire Harding ventured to explore the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, at a depth of more than 10,000m under the sea. He and American explorer Victor Vescovo broke the Guinness World Record for “longest time to travel through the deepest part of the ocean in a single dive” (within 4 hours and 15 minutes).

On this expedition, he and Victor Vescovo are on a journey to find new marine species as well as collect evidence of human-caused ocean pollution. "I want this expedition to contribute to our common knowledge and understanding of planet Earth," he told the Khaleej Times newspaper in Dubai.

During his expedition to the Mariana Trench, he foresaw the dangers of a journey that could be a "one-way trip." The 10km journey to the deepest point in the ocean, the Challenger Deep, he once confided to India's The Week magazine that "if something goes wrong, you don't come back."

This time, former NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Harding's friend, texted him just before he left. Virts recalled that Harding did not seem nervous about the Titanic expedition.

Father and son accidentally boarded the Titan ship on the occasion of "Father's Day"

Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son Suleman happened to board the Titan on a weekend when many places around the world were celebrating Father's Day. In one photo, the father and son are seen smiling brightly in the sunset.

Shahzada Dawood comes from one of Pakistan's richest families. The family business empire Dawood Hercules Corp. has investments in agriculture, healthcare and other industries in Pakistan.

Mr Shahzada is an adviser to the Prince's Trust International, a charity founded by King Charles III. (His father, Hussain, was one of the foundation's founding patrons.)

"We are shocked by this terrible news," said Will Straw, chief executive of the trust, in a statement about the Titan submersible incident, and prayed for the crew to be rescued soon.

A close friend of Mr. Shahzada’s since high school said he was reserved and introverted, and enjoyed taking ambitious trips. He had participated in an expedition to Antarctica in 2018 and crossed the Kalahari Desert in Africa last December.

Shahzada Dawood's hobbies include wildlife photography, gardening and exploring nature while his 19-year-old son is fascinated by science fiction novels.

"Mr. Titanic" - the expert who has dived and recovered artifacts on the Titanic many times

No one on the OceanGate submersible knows more about the Titanic than Paul Henry Nargeolet, a former French Navy officer and maritime expert who has spent so much time studying and surveying the remains of the world-famous ship that he has been nicknamed “Mr. Titanic.”

Nargeolet directs underwater research for E/M Corporation and RMC Titanic Inc., the U.S. company that owns the rights to salvage the wreck and bring the Titanic's treasures to museum exhibits around the world.

Nargeolet completed 37 dives to the Titanic and oversaw the recovery of some 5,000 artifacts from the ship.

He is no stranger to OceanGate’s Titan, either. Nargeolet and an Irish oil executive named Oisín Fanning took the Titan submersible to a depth of more than 9,000 feet in 2022. He discovered “an extraordinarily biodiverse abyssal ecosystem on a previously unknown basalt formation near the Titanic.”

This ecosystem has been provisionally named Nargeolet-Fanning Ridge by OceanGate, after the explorer.

Nargeolet's previous statements suggest he agrees with CEO Rush's assessment that explorations of the Titanic wreck are a matter of historic urgency.

“In 20 years, most of the Titanic’s deck will have collapsed and will still be there, but everything else will be badly rotted,” Nargeolet told the Associated Press in 2010.

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