Titanic hits iceberg

Any sign of Greedy recently?

Who is the British billionaire explorer missing at sea?

Hamish Harding, 58, is one of the five missing with the OceanGate Expeditions vessel, which was reported overdue on Sunday evening about 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland.

Harding is the chair of the private plane firm Action Aviation. His wife is called Linda, and he has two sons named Rory and Giles, as well as a stepdaughter named Lauren and a stepson, Brian Szasz.

As a student, he left Cambridge with a degree in natural sciences and chemical engineering.

Harding is an aviator, holding an airline transport pilot’s licence and business jet type ratings, including the Gulfstream G650. He is also a skydiver, was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation in 2022, and is a trustee of the Explorers Club.

He also previously worked with the Antarctic VIP tourism company White Desert to introduce the first regular business jet service to Antarctica.

Harding has made many trips to the south pole and, in 2016, accompanied Buzz Aldrin, who became the oldest person to reach the south pole at 86. He also went into space last year with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company.

Harding is the current holder of three Guinness world records, relating to his work as an adventurer. In 2019, he was commended for the fastest circumnavigation of the Earth via both poles.

As part of a crew of eight astronauts and aviators in a Qatar executive Gulfstream G650ER ultra-long-range business jet, Harding led the mission to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. He achieved the feat in 46 hours, 40 minutes and 22 seconds.

In 2021, he achieved the greatest distance covered at full ocean depth and the greatest duration spent at full ocean depth.

Alongside Victor Vescovo, Harding dove in a two-man submarine to the lowest point in the world’s oceans, the deepest point of the Mariana Trench, the Challenger Deep – a depth of about 36,000 ft.
 
Man this is awful. God help them if they're stuck down there realizing that their oxygen is going to run out soon. That said, I wouldn't go down 4KM in one of those things (it's controlled by a Playstation joypad) if you paid me 250,000, let alone if I paid that figure.
 
Man this is awful. God help them if they're stuck down there realizing that their oxygen is going to run out soon. That said, I wouldn't go down 4KM in one of those things (it's controlled by a Playstation joypad) if you paid me 250,000, let alone if I paid that figure.
What exactly was the point?

Box-ticking by billionaires?

It did not even have windows and you would be looking at images on computer screens.

Which you could have done from the safety of your sofa.
 
One of the passengers, a nineteen year old male along with his Father. Two and a half hours from surface to Titanic, few hours at 12,400 feet (pressure 400 bar) then resurface. Seven different ballast systems, one is a time released sandbag that drops regardless of human interaction to resurface the Sub. Twenty five successful dives previously. Power outage, coms are down. Multiple oxygen systems, 96 hours worth, time runs out Thursday 4pm Irish time. Two Russian Subs had previously dived to the Titanic.
 
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