A crew of 5 individuals, together with a pilot and 4 others, have been on board the Titan submersible when it misplaced contact with its help ship throughout a dive to the Titanic wreckage web site 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 response to 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 area 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 file for the quickest circumnavigation of Earth through each the geographic poles by airplane.

In an Instagram post on Saturday with footage 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 arduous in Newfoundland this 12 months, “a weather window has just opened up,” he added.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French maritime knowledgeable who has been on over 35 dives to the Titanic wreck web site, is likely one of the 5 individuals aboard the submersible that has been lacking since Sunday, stated Mathieu Johann, an agent for Mr. Nargeolet.

Mr. Nargeolet is the director of underwater analysis for RMS Titanic, Inc., an American firm that owns the salvage rights to the well-known wreck and shows most of the artifacts in Titanic exhibitions. The firm carried out eight analysis and restoration expeditions between 1987 and 2010, in response to its web site, and Mr. Nargeolet has taken half in over 35 dives to the wreck web site.

Shahzada Dawood and Suleman Dawood

The British businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son, Suleman, 19, are amongst these aboard the lacking submersible, in response to an announcement from the Engro Corporation, of which Mr. Dawood is a vice chairman. Mr. Dawood is a scion of certainly one of 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 stated, asking for prayers for his or her secure return and privateness for the household.

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