What to know about the 5 passengers on the missing Titanic sub

By Aimee Picchi, Updated on: June 20, 2023 / 5:48 PM / MoneyWatch

…OceanGate billed the trip as an opportunity to "become one of the few to see the Titanic with your own eyes."

The company said the fee for securing a seat on the vessel was $250,000, according to its website. The trip wasn't billed as mere tourism, however, with OceanGate noting that each of its dives has a scientific purpose. …

Here's what to know about the passengers on the vessel.

Hamish Harding, chairman of Action Aviation

Harding is the ‘’’chairman of a company called Action Aviation, which sells aircraft to Fortune 100 companies, international corporations, heads of state and people in the entertainment and sports industries’’’, according to its website. The British businessman is referred to as a billionaire in the British press, but Forbes magazine noted that he's not included on its list of the world's richest people.

Aside from his business, Harding is known for his exploits as an adventurer. He holds several records with the Guinness Book of World Records, including "fastest circumnavigation of Earth via both the geographic poles" by airplane, which he and a team accomplished in 2019 in a little over 46 hours.

Harding also was ‘’’one of six people on Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin's mission last June, when they flew to the edge of space.’’’

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Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood

Shahzada Dawood, 48, is the ‘’’vice chairman of Dawood Hercules, an investment and holding company based in Karachi, Pakistan.’’’

Dawood Hercules is part of the Dawood Group, a family business for more than a century, according to his biography at the SETI Institute, where he also serves on the board. Dawood is heir to one of Pakistan's largest family fortunes according to the New York Times.

British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, who are two of the five people on board a small submersible vessel that went missing on June 18, 2023, as it dived toward the wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic.

Dawood is a resident of the U.K. with his wife and two children, Suleman and daughter Alina, the SETI Institute noted. He also is an "ardent animal lover" and has a masters degree in global textile marketing from Philadelphia University in the U.S. and a law degree from Buckingham University in the U.K.

Suleman Dawood is 19 years old, …

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, "Titanic's Greatest Explorer"

Nargeolet is known as a Titanic expert, according to the OceanGate website. He's led six expeditions to the ship's wreckage site and is known as "Titanic's Greatest Explorer," the company said.

He's also the ‘’’director of underwater research’’’ for RMS Titanic, an American company that owns the salvage rights to the wreck and operates exhibits featuring artifacts from the ship. …

Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate

Rush is the ‘’’CEO of the company running the expedition’’’.

When he was 19, Rush was the youngest person to become a jet transport-rated pilot when he earned a DC-8 Type/Captain's rating at the United Airlines Jet Training Institute, according to his biography at OceanGate.

Rush earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 1984 and an MBA from the Berkeley Haas School of Business in 1989. In 2009, Rush founded OceanGate, where he oversees the company's financial and engineering strategies, according to the company.

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