ACTION Aviation said in a statement Tuesday that Hamish Harding, its chairman and one of five aboard the missing OceanGate Titan sub, will come home safely.
The aircraft sales company said it confirms that our esteemed Chairman, Hamish Harding, is currently onboard the Titan Submersible at the Titanic site. Both the Harding family and the action Aviation team are very thankful for all the kind messages of concern and support from our friends and colleagues. We are thankful for the continued efforts of the authorities and companies that have stepped in to aid in the rescue efforts, it said in a statement. We place a lot of trust in their expertise. Harding, a licensed Air Transport Pilot, a Living Legend of Aviation, was inducted into the Guinness World Records in 2022, a three-year-old record holder, anexplorer and an Entrepreneur. Harding said that Harding is an exceptionally accomplished individual who has successfully completed challenging expeditions such as One More Orbit project the record-breaking circumnavigation of the world a flight to Space with Blue Origins New Shepard rocket as a commercial Astronaut NS - 21 mission and the reintroduction of Cheetahs from Namibia to India. He travelled on a submersible to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench and has been to the South Pole a number of times, Action Aviation said.
The company added that its team is extremely proud of Hamish, and we look forward to welcoming him home. Harding was aboard the OceanGate Titan sub that had been aboard the Titanic when it plummeted into the wreckage of the Titanic on Sunday.
Harding's Facebook page said he was proud to finally announce that I joined OceanGate Expeditions for their RMS Titanic mission as a mission specialist on the sub going down to the Titanic.
Due to the worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023, he said. A weather window has just opened up and we are going to attempt a dive tomorrow. We started steaming from St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada yesterday and are planning to start dive operations around 4 am tomorrow. And until then, we have a lot of preparations and briefings to do.