With all the 5 passengers on board the Titan sub now confirmed dead by the US Coast Guard, it is an irredeemable loss to the science and tech community.
The Titan sub got missing on Sunday while attempting to descend to the site of the Titanic wreckage which sank in 1912 after a collision with an iceberg during a maiden voyage.
The submersible is believed to have had a catastrophic implosion as it attempted to descend to the ocean depth of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) for site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deep-sea testing of hardware and software”.
Parts of the titan sub now found near the wreckage site of the Titanic now confirms an implosion.
Stockton Rush, the CEO and founder of OceanGate who died on board the submersible was an engineer who designed the Titanic submersible with carbon fibers and titanium, a sharp deviation standard designs. The submersible though criticized by a number of experts was an innovative feat which proves its founder to be a genius.
Hamish Harding, born on 24 June 1964, was a British businessman, and adventurer, explorer and a pilot who founded the Action Aviation, an aircraft brokerage company in Dubai. He has visited the South pole several times and had participated in space trip of 2022 on board Blue Origin space craft. According to a BBC report, he is a three time Guinness World Records holder, including longest time spent at full ocean depth during a dive to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. Hamish died along side 4 other travelers in the imploded submersible.
Paul Henry Nargeolet, born on 2nd March 1946 was also on board. He was a French deep sea expert who spend more time at the Titanic wreck site than any other explorer and had been nicknamed “Mr. Titanic”. His knowledge of the history of Titanic and the titanic wreckage site played a prominent role in inspiring the James Cameron’s Titanic film in 1997. According to Marca, he made 37 dives to the Titanic wreckage until his dead in the Titan sub. Nargeolet was part of the first visit to the Titanic wreck in 1987 and has since spearheaded the recovery of Titanic artefacts.
The British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood were part of the expedition to the Titanic wreck who did not make it alive. Suleman had just completed his first year at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The Dawoods were of Pakistani descend with interest in exploring natural habitats.
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