Hamish Harding, the billionaire on board the Titanic submersible, is a serial explorer who additionally went to house on a Blue Origin flight

• A British billionaire on board the lacking Titanic submersible is a famous explorer.
• Hamish Harding beforehand flew to house on a Blue Origin flight and has damaged a number of information.
• The submersible that took vacationers to go to the Titanic shipwreck went lacking on Sunday.

A British billionaire on board a lacking submersible that was headed to the Titanic wreckage was a famous explorer who flew to house final 12 months on a Blue Origin flight. 

Hamish Harding is one in every of 5 passengers on the Titan submersible that was visiting the Titanic wreckage when it misplaced communication with its mom ship on Sunday.

A search mission is underway to get better the misplaced ship, however time is working brief. The crew within the submersible might run out of oxygen by Thursday afternoon if the vessel continues to be intact. 

Harding, 58, isn’t any stranger to tourism of the intense. He is a part of a choose group of house vacationers who’ve paid privately to hitch missions in orbit.

Final 12 months, he flew 66.5 miles above Earth on Blue Origin’s New Shepherd rocket throughout a 10-minute suborbital flight. 

You’ll be able to see Harding’s journey to house right here:

Harding additionally holds at the very least 4 Guinness World Data for achievements together with the longest time spent navigating the Mariana Trench, the deepest a part of the ocean, and the quickest flight going all the best way across the globe, crossing each poles. 

He was additionally a part of two record-breaking missions to the South Pole, the primary becoming a member of astronaut Buzz Aldrin who grew to become the oldest particular person to achieve the pole in 2016, and one the place his 12-year-old son, Giles Harding, grew to become the youngest to achieve the pole, per Forbes.

He’s additionally a skydiver and is a trustee of the Explorers Membership, per The Guardian. 

“Cannot consider it has been that lengthy already however completely cannot watch for our subsequent mission/journey/journey! #OneMoreRecord,” stated Harding in a tweet 5 months after his deep dive within the Mariana Trench in August 2021.

Harding, a aircraft pilot who made his cash in plane gross sales, introduced on Instagram Sunday he can be becoming a member of the OceanGate expedition onboard the Titan submersible as their mission specialist.

He added that because of “the worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years,” this mission would seemingly be the one one to the Titanic in 2023. 

Harding has been broadly reported to be a billionaire, although his actual internet price is unknown, per Forbes. 

Harding’s stepson, Brian Szasz, confirmed his disappearance through posts on his Fb and Twitter accounts. 

“Hamish my stepdad is misplaced in a submarine ideas and prayers that the rescue mission will probably be profitable,” Szasz stated in his Fb put up on Monday.