British billionaire Hamish Harding is one of five people who is missing aboard the craft. Read more at straitstimes.com.
about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive to see the wreckage of the Titanic in deep waters off Canada’s coast.Ms Mikkelsen said Mr Harding was “being branded as a UK billionaire going for a sightseeing trip to the Titanic.” But, she said, expeditions were also for scientific research.
“These types of expeditions are very expensive and we need people like Hamish who can pay and sponsor such an expedition, but also take the risk of joining such an expedition with his expertise,” Ms Mikkelsen said.Together they took part in 2019‘s “One More Orbit” flight mission that set a record for the fastest circumnavigation of Earth by aircraft flying over both geographic poles.
The Titanic expeditions start in St John’s, Newfoundland, before heading out approximately 640km into the Atlantic to the wreckage site, according to the website of Oceangate, the private company that operates the submersible vessel.
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