The company leader is young Titan submarine The 61-year-old Director and Founder of the travel organization OceanGate Stockton Rush volts. Originally a pilot, Rush had already at the age of nineteen attained the captain’s qualifications for a now-decommissioned DC-8.
Three years later, he also had an aeronautical engineering degree in his pocket, and used his knowledge to build his own plane.
According to The Washington Post, the venture Stockton Rush continued: He built the first diving craft in the sea, which was for two people, and made a total of thirty dives, of course not yet reaching the same depth as now. The company OceanGate, which he created for the purpose of research and tourism, whose main direction has become deep-sea diving, was founded in 2009, and he has been organizing excursions since 2010.
The Titanic has sunk several times in the past two years.
Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, is one of the five missing passengers on the submarine. https://t.co/kx3jYndzRz
– The New York Times (@nytimes) June 21, 2023
Hamish Harding
Hamish Harding He was a 58-year-old British businessman and aviator who was also blessed with a strong craving for adventure: for example, he broke several world records for deep-sea diving.
As a businessman, he ran a company dealing in buying and selling of aircraft, which he also founded. He was attracted not only by depth, but also by height: last year he was one of the participants in the fifth space jump of Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin, when he reached the frontiers of outer space.
He also visited the South Pole and the Mariana Trench.
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– Hamish Harding (@ActionAviation0) March 7, 2023
Paul Henry Nargolet
He is 77 years old Paul Henry Nargolet The participant in the expedition was the French, who had previously served as a midshipman: he had already commanded a submarine in the Navy, so he was almost at home to stay in such a vehicle.
The helmsman visited the Titanic already in the 1990s: he was considered one of the most dangerous experts on the iconic sunken ship lying at the bottom of the ocean, who was able to mark the scattered parts of the ship.
Paul-Henri Nargolet dived most of the time with the company’s Titanic, and his book about the sinking ship was also published.
Paul-Henri Nargolet, a feared French navigator aboard the lost submarine Titanic, knows the dangers of deep diving https://t.co/FNIKVTgxIA
– FoxNews June 20, 2023
Shahzada Daoud and Suleiman Dawood
Finally, perhaps the most famous two entrants follow: the Pakistani and British father-son duo. Father Shahzade Daoud was 48 years old, and son Suleiman was only 19 years old.
Shahzada Dawood was the Vice President of Engro, a large Pakistani company with a presence in many industries. Daoud Hercules, the owner of the company, is a family property founded by Shahzadeh’s father, Hossein. The businessman was very interested in nature, but not as adventurous as the three previous passengers.
Presumably, this is also why he brought his 19-year-old son, who was already brought up in England. Solomon loved reading science fiction books, so the interest in the trip was there, and it is believed that he immediately liked the idea of diving, once his father teased the possibility.
The father and son differed from the other participants mainly in that they had never been involved in extreme or adventure sports, flying or scuba diving, so presumably they were unaware of the risks involved in diving to extreme depths with the particular vehicle.