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Five people were on board the Titan submersible when it lost contact with its support ship during a dive to the Titanic wreckage site in the North Atlantic last Sunday. All five are believed to be dead.
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Founder and chief executive of OceanGate Expeditions, the company that operated the submersible. He was piloting the vessel. Rush grew up wanting to be an astronaut and, after earning an aerospace engineering degree from Princeton in 1984, a fighter pilot.
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Founder and chief executive of OceanGate Expeditions, the company that operated the submersible. He was piloting the vessel. Rush grew up wanting to be an astronaut and, after earning an aerospace engineering degree from Princeton in 1984, a fighter pilot.
Hamish Harding, a British businessman and explorer, holds several Guinness World Records, including one for the longest time spent traversing the deepest part of the ocean on a single dive.
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Harding, 58, was the chairman of Action Aviation, a sales and air operations company based in Dubai. He had previously flown to space on a mission by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company.
Harding also took part in an effort to reintroduce cheetahs to India, and holds a world record for the fastest circumnavigation of Earth via both the geographic poles by plane.
A French maritime expert, had been on more than 35 dives to the Titanic wreck site. Nargeolet was the director of underwater research for RMS Titanic, Inc., an American company that owns the salvage rights to the famous wreck and displays many of the artifacts in Titanic exhibitions.
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The British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son, Suleman, 19, were members of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families. His son was a business student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow
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