In the afternoon of this Thursday 22nd, the US Navy confirmed that the crew of the Titan submarine died after the submarine imploded at sea. The OceanGate submarine disappeared on a mission to visit the wreckage of the Titanic, taking five crew members on board.
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“These men were true explorers who shared a strong spirit of adventure and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans,” the company said in a statement. In the submersiblewere great millionaires: Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, Paul Henry Nargeolet, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood.
Where did Hamish Harding’s fortune come from?
Harding was an English entrepreneur and founder of Action Group, a private equity firm based in the United Kingdom and Dubai. The company includes Action Aviation, which is responsible for providing brokerage, management and aircraft financing services and has already sold 30 new and used commercial aircraft.
Each unit was valued at US$70 million.
additionally billionaire He graduated from Cambridge University and held degrees in Science and Chemical Engineering. Harding was married, leaving behind his wife and two children. Despite being billed as a billionaire explorer, the businessman does not appear in the Bloomberg index of the world’s richest people.
He was used to making risky journeys
Harding paid $250,000 to travel to the wreck of the Titanic, but this wasn’t the explorer’s first risky mission. He also flew Blue Origen, a flight into space that cost him $220,000 for a seat. In addition, Hamish had already traveled to the South Pole twice. The billionaire had also booked a flight on Virgin Galactic, a mission that is set to kick off space tourism still in 2023.
Hamish wasn’t just fearless when it came to travel. In March 2021, he set the world record for longest time on the seabed by spending four hours and 15 minutes on the seabed of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in a submerged vehicle. The challenge had a depth of 10,930 meters.
In addition, the fastest circumnavigation of the two poles took 46 hours and 40 minutes and was completed in July 2019. Hamish was the pilot and mission leader. Finally, another Guinness World Record for Hamish was the longest distance traveled in the deepest part of the ocean, at 4,364 km.
The feat was also accomplished during a dive in the Mariana Trench in 2021.