Hamish Harding, a British businessman and explorer, was among those aboard the submersible that went missing in the North Atlantic on Sunday, according to Mark Butler, the managing director of Mr. Harding’s company, Action Aviation.
Mr. Harding, 58, who holds several Guinness World Records, including one for the longest time spent traversing the deepest part of the ocean on a single dive, wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday that he was proud to finally announce that he had joined OceanGate’s mission “on the sub going down to the Titanic.”Mr. Harding is the chairman of Action Aviation, a sales and air operations company based in Dubai.
He had previously flown to space on a mission by Jeffrey P. Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company.
He also took part in a mission for reintroduction of cheetahs to India, and holds a world record for the fastest circumnavigation of Earth via both the geographic poles by plane.
Persons:
Hamish Harding, Mark Butler, Harding, Mr, Jeffrey P
Organizations:
Atlantic, Action Aviation, World Records, Origin
Locations:
British, Dubai, India