Courtesy of Jannicke Mikkelsen/via REUTERS/File PhotoJune 20 (Reuters) - A five-person submersible vessel taking wealthy adventurers on a $250,000 trip to see the wreckage of the 1912 Titanic disaster 12,500 feet (3,800m) undersea is missing in the Atlantic off Canada.
The British billionaire and chairman of aviation consultancy Action Aviation is among those missing, according to his stepson.
The 77-year-old French explorer, whom media say is one of the five on board, is director of underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck.
The founder and CEO of the vessel's U.S.-based operating company OceanGate is also on the submersible, according to media reports.
"It is an amazingly beautiful wreck," Rush told Britain's Sky news of the Titanic earlier this year.
Persons:
Hamish Harding, Jannicke Mikkelsen, HAMISH HARDING, Harding, Buzz Aldrin, Aldrin, SHAHZADA DAWOOD, SULEMAN, Shahzada, PAUL, HENRI NARGEOLET, Rush, Britain's, OceanGate, Ariba Shahid, Kate Holton, Dominique Vidalon, Yousef Saba, Andrew Cawthorne, Christina Fincher, Alexandra Hudson
Organizations:
Titanic, WHO, Action Aviation, Engro Corporation, SETI, French Navy, France Bleu, STOCKTON RUSH, Britain's Sky, Reuters, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson
Locations:
Atlantic, Canada, British, Dubai, Newfoundland, fertilisers, California, Britain, U.S, Everett, Washington State, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Karachi, London, Paris