Five people on an expedition to the world's most famous shipwreck are facing critical danger aboard a small submersible that has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean.
The submersible Titan was reported overdue on Sunday night about 700 kilometres south of St John's, Newfoundland, according to Canada's Joint Rescue Coordination Center, spurring a desperate international rescue effort.The expedition was led by OceanGate, making its third voyage to the Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, killing 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 passengers and crew.OceanGate CEO and co-founder Stockton Rush is the pilot of the submersible.
"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 could avoid such perils. "Stockton was a risk-taker. He was smart. He was, he had a vision, he wanted to push things forward," Mr Stone said on Tuesday.Hamish Harding is a billionaire adventurer who holds the Guiness World Record for longest duration at full ocean depth by a crewed vessel.
"We all join in the fervent hope that the submersible is located as quickly as possible," he said in a statement.Father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood's family have asked people to pray for the pair. Their firm, Dawood Hercules Corporation, based in Karachi, is involved in agriculture, petrochemicals and telecommunication infrastructure.
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