On Tuesday, it will become clear who is on board the small submarine, writes CNN. It will be led by diver Paul-Henry (PH) Nargeolet. That’s what one of the others on board, Hamish Harding, wrote on his Facebook page last week. Nargeolet is described as the leading expert on the wreck of the Titanic. He has a background in the French Navy and led the first expedition to the Titanic in 1987. 77-year-old Nargeolet is said to have dived down to the wreck 35 times and retrieved 5,000 objects. Three paying Paul-Henry (PH) Nargeolet Photo: E/M Group Among the five on board there are three paying passengers. One of them will be the British businessman and adventurer Hamish Harding. In addition, the Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman. It is the family of the two who state that they are on board. Sky News writes that the fifth person is Stockton Rush. He is one of the founders of the company OceanGate Expeditions, which owns the submarine. Air for 96 hours Hamish Harding posted a picture of the submarine Titan on Facebook last Saturday. Photo: Hamish Harding When the boat dived on Sunday, it had enough air for 96 hours. That means it will run out of air on Thursday. Last year, the founder of tour operator OceanGate Expeditions showed a CBS crew the inside of a submarine used to visit the wreck of the Titanic. The CBS video shows a small room, about the size of a minibus. There are no chairs or seats, and passengers sit cross-legged on the floor and have removed their shoes before entering. For such an advanced underwater craft, the interior is mostly bare and simple, with just one button and a screen on the wall. The rest of the vessel’s functions are controlled via a hand-held controller that resembles a game console with colorful buttons. Turn up the music when they go on the The submarine Titan can dive to a depth of 4,000 metres. Photo: AP There is only one small toilet in the front of the vessel, which “also serves as the best seat in the house”, according to an OceanGate website that is no longer available. It also said that when the toilet is used, they put up a curtain that screens for access “and turn up the music”. The organizers write that they recommend that passengers limit their diet before and during the dive “to reduce the likelihood that you will have to use the toilet”. Although it is known that the submarine had air for 96 hours on board when it dived on Sunday, it is unclear what water and food it had.
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