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UPDATE: More Passengers On Missing Submersible Visiting Titanic Identified


As  WLT Report reported on Sunday, the United States Coast Guard has launched a full-scale search for a missing submersible that was exploring the Titanic wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean.

A total of five people were onboard the submersible including UK billionaire Hamish Harding.

Other passengers onboard have been identified as Shahzada Dawood who is a prominent Pakistani businessman, and his son, Suleman.

New reports also speculate that Titanic expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet was also onboard the submersible but it has yet to be confirmed.

Here’s what NBC News reported:

The desperate search for a missing submersible that vanished during a mission to explore the wreck of the Titanic continued on Tuesday as more information about those onboard came to light.

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The submersible, which is part of an OceanGate Expeditions tour that offers passengers a once-in-a-lifetime experience to explore the Titanic wreckage, went missing on Sunday after losing contact with the research vessel Polar Prince.

British billionaire and owner of Action Aviation Hamish Harding was among the five people onboard the vessel, along with prominent Pakistani businessman, Shahzada Dawood, and his son, Suleman. The other two people onboard have yet to be identified.

Fox News has speculated French Mariner Paul-Henry Nargeolet was onboard too:

French mariner Paul-Henry Nargeolet, considered one of the leading experts on the Titanic, is feared to be among five people who went missing on a tourist submersible visiting the wreckage.

Nargelot was named in a Facebook post by fellow voyager, Hamish Harding, a U.K. billionaire and aviator, a day before the mission.



 

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