A West Country billionaire adventurer was one of five people on board a submarine that has gone missing on Titanic submarine. The vessel disappeared while descending more than 12,000 feet under the North Atlantic ocean to visit the wreck of the Titanic.
Hamish Harding, a former pupil of The King's School in Gloucester, was on the submarine which rescue teams are now racing to find. Crews have reportedly detected intermittent “banging” noises from the vicinity of the last known location of the divers, reports Gloucestershire Live.
There is less than three days of oxygen likely left on the submersible tourist vessel, which is thought to have gone missing off the coast of Newfoundland shortly into its roughly £200,000 per ticket Titanic voyage. Rescue crews and the Canadian Navy and US Air Force are currently searching a 900 mile area for the 6.7 metre submersible, which contains one pilot and four passengers, including Hamish Harding.
