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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp,Tara Cobham and Jane Dalton

A British billionaire, father and son and renowned diver: Who was on the Titanic submarine?

Reuters/Getty/WEF/OceanGate

All five passengers on the Titan submersible that vanished during a mission to explore the Titanic wreckage were killed when the vessel endured a “catastophic implosion” deep in the ocean.

British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, UK citizens Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman Dawood, French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet and OceanGate Expeditions chief executive Stockton Rush had “sadly been lost”, the company announced on 22 June – when debris from the sub was foud on the sea floor.

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