Action Aviation, an aircraft brokering company for which Harding served as chairman, said he was one of the mission specialists, who paid to go on the expedition. He was, he had a vision, he wanted to push things forward,” Stone said Tuesday.Ī British businessman, Harding, lived in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Greg Stone, a longtime ocean scientist and a friend of Rush, called him “a real pioneer” in the innovation of submersibles. Over the past 20 years, he oversaw the development of multiple successful IP ventures. Rush became the youngest jet transport rated pilot in the world at age 19 in 1981, and flew commercial jets in college, according to his company biography. “What I worry about most are things that will stop me from being able to get to the surface - overhangs, fish nets, entanglement hazard,” he said, adding that a good pilot can avoid such perils. In an interview with CBS News last year, Rush defended the safety of his submersible but said nothing is without risk. “The ocean is taking this thing, and we need to document it before it all disappears or becomes unrecognizable,” Rush told The Associated Press in 2021. The private company based in Washington started bringing tourists to the Titanic in 2021 as part of its effort to chronicle the slow deterioration of the wreck. Rush was the Titan’s pilot, said company spokesperson Andrew Von Kerens. in 2009 to provide crewed submersibles for undersea researchers and explorers, according to the company’s website. They were:Īlthough his background is in aerospace and technology, Rush founded OceanGate Inc. The expedition featuring the Titan was led by OceanGate, making its third voyage to the Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, killing all but about 700 of the roughly 2,200 passengers and crew.Ī pilot and four other people were on the Titan.
Rescuers raced against the clock because it was feared the oxygen supply could run out by approximately 6 am Thursday. John’s, Newfoundland, according to Canada’s Joint Rescue Coordination Center, spurring a desperate international rescue effort. The Titan was reported overdue Sunday night about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south of St. John Mauger, of the First Coast Guard District, said search efforts will continue but that the prospect of finding or recovering remains was unknown. The search for the submersible - as well as any clues to explain what happened underwater - continued Thursday after a deep-sea robot found debris near the Titanic shipwreck.
The US Coast Guard on Thursday said there were no survivors after the catastrophic implosion deep in the North Atlantic.
A renowned Titanic expert, a world record-holding adventurer, two members of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families and the CEO of the company leading an expedition to the world’s most famous shipwreck were killed aboard the Titan submersible when it imploded in the Atlantic Ocean sometime this week.
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