On board were the British millionaire Hamish Harding, president of the Action Aviation company; the pakistani shahzada dawoodVice President of Engro, and his son suleman; the expert french diver Paul-Henri nargeolet; and Stockton RushCEO of OceanGate Expeditions, the company that operates the submersible, and which charged $250,000 per tourist.
Stockton Rush
Stockton RushCEO of OceanGate and one of the crew members aboard Titan, was one of the confirmed fatalities this Thursday. On behalf of the company he founded 13 years ago, he was the responsible for the organization and management of this trip.
His job consists of “oversee financial and engineering strategies” and plan the strategies to develop submarines with capacity of up to 6,000 metersaccording to the website of Ocean Gate.
Rush went from aviation to scuba diving, as he he was the world’s youngest qualified jet transport pilot when he qualified as a Captain at the United Airlines Jet Training Institute in 1981 at the age of 19, and later expanded his training at the prestigious Princeton and Berkeley faculties. Made first officer of DC-8 (his rank as Captain) during college summers, with assignments to Saudi Arabia, Cairo, Damascus, Mumbai, London, Zurich and Khartoum.
During the last 20 years, according to the information offered by OceanGate, Rush oversaw the development of multiple successful intellectual property companies.
Paul-Henri Nargeolet
One of the most inverse crew members on the excursion was undoubtedly Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Considered the man with the most knowledge of the Titanic in the world, in fact he is known as Mr. Titanic.
At 77, the Frenchman, a retired Navy commander, was aware of the risks involved in this type of expedition. “When you’re in very deep water, you’re dead before you know something’s upSo it’s just not a problem,” he told the ‘Irish Examiner’ in 2018.
His daughter, Sidonie Nargeolet, told Reuters that lived with “a lot of stress, very mixed emotions” searching for the ship in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
“He was passionate about the Titanic since it was found 30 years ago and I know he is now where he would like to be”he concluded.
Hamish Harding
Harding was a world explorer and at 58 he managed to keep three Guinness records. Without a doubt, he was not afraid of adventures.
Last year he had traveled with six other crew members into space on the mission Blue Origin on the New Shepard rocket.
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It wasn’t her first time in the ocean either. In fact, one of the records he has to his name is for having achieved the greatest length covered and the greatest time spent at depth of the ocean when on March 5, 2021, he submerged with Victor Vescovo in the deepest point of the Mariana Trench, the Challenger Deep (11,000 m).
“Hey, we’re going out tomorrow, it looks good, the weather’s been bad so you’ve been waiting for this”, Harding had told his friend Terry Virts former NASA astronautaccording to what the latter told the Good Morning program.
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shahzada dawood
Shahzada Dawood was a renowned businessman and member of one of the richest families in Pakistan. She had started the journey in the Titan with his 19-year-old son, Suleman.
The Dawood company is influential in different productive sectors of the country such as agriculture, industry and health. Besides, the businessman is part of the board of directors of the SETI Institutea California-based project dedicated to the search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
suleman dawood
Suleman Dawood, the youngest of the crew, at 19 years old joined the trip to see the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean with his father. She had recently finished her first year of study at the University of Strathclyde.
“We are deeply concerned for Suleman, his father and others involved in this incident. Our thoughts are with their families and loved ones and we are still waiting for a positive result“, they had expressed from the institution before hearing the news of the death of the crew members.
Source: Ambito
