A crew of 5 folks, together with a pilot and 4 others, had been on board the Titan submersible when it misplaced contact with its assist ship throughout a dive to the Titanic wreckage website within the North Atlantic on Sunday.

Here are the passengers who’ve been confirmed to have been aboard the lacking craft.

Hamish Harding

Hamish Harding, a British businessman and explorer, was amongst these aboard the submersible, in keeping with Mark Butler, the managing director of Mr. Harding’s firm, Action Aviation.

Mr. Harding, 58, who holds a number of Guinness World Records, together with one for the longest time spent traversing the deepest a part of the ocean on a single dive, wrote on his Facebook web page on Saturday that he was proud to lastly 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 gross sales and air operations firm primarily based in Dubai. He had beforehand flown to house on a mission by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket firm.

Mr. Harding additionally took half in an effort to reintroduce cheetahs to India, and holds a world document for the quickest circumnavigation of Earth by way of each the geographic poles by aircraft.

In an Instagram post on Saturday with photos of the submersible and of him signing a flag for the Titanic mission, he wrote that the group had sailed from St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, on Friday, and was planning to begin dive operations round 4 a.m. on Sunday.

Despite the winter being notably exhausting in Newfoundland this yr, “a weather window has just opened up,” he added.

Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood

British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, are amongst these aboard the lacking submersible, in keeping with an announcement from the Engro Corporation, of which Mr. Dawood is a vice chairman. Mr. Dawood is a scion of one in all Pakistan’s wealthiest households, with a background in textiles and fertilizer manufacturing.

Mr. Dawood and his son had “embarked on a journey to visit the remnants of the Titanic” when contact with the vessel was misplaced, the assertion mentioned, asking for prayers for his or her secure return and privateness for the household.

Mr. Dawood can be on the board of trustees for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute. The group said on its web site that he was a resident of the United Kingdom, and a father of two youngsters.