Lacking British billionaire Hamish Harding has a Guinness world report for the longest length spent on the backside of the ocean.
The London-born adventurer set it in 2021 after diving in a submersible to the deepest place on Earth, the Mariana Trench, and traversing it for 4 hours quarter-hour.
It was considered one of three world data the 58-year-old has earned. He set one other one for the longest distance – three miles – coated on the backside of the ocean. His first was set in 2019, for the quickest circumnavigation of the Earth through North and South Poles in a Gulfstream 650ER enterprise jet. And final 12 months he went into area.
Earlier than setting off on the Titanic vacationer submarine, which is now lacking, Mr Harding advised his social media followers: ‘A climate window has simply opened up and we’re going to try a dive tomorrow.’
An worker of Mr Harding final evening revealed the billionaire had wished to go on the journey for ‘a very long time’ – including there may be nonetheless ‘loads of air’ onboard.
Lacking British billionaire Hamish Harding has a Guinness world report for the longest length spent on the backside of the ocean
Earlier than setting off on the Titanic vacationer submarine, which is now lacking, Mr Harding advised his social media followers: ‘A climate window has simply opened up and we’re going to try a dive tomorrow.’ Pictured: Harding exploring the South Pole
The Motion Aviation worker mentioned: ‘There may be loads of air onboard nonetheless and there may be loads of time for a rescue to be carried out and we’re ready for the authorities to replace us.
‘He’s the one member of Motion Aviation onboard and we’re simply ready for updates. That is one thing Hamish had been trying ahead to for a very long time.’
The daddy of two – who’s associates with astronaut Buzz Aldrin – mentioned just lately: ‘I used to learn the e-book of Guinness World Information often as a baby.
‘I all the time questioned how I might get into it. I didn’t assume I might do it. And I did not wish to do one thing silly like setting a report for the variety of ping-pong balls bounced in a day, or one thing like that.’
Because the frantic seek for the Titanic submersible was below manner yesterday, relations requested for prayers for Mr Harding. The aviator, businessman and explorer isn’t any stranger to perilous expeditions. He advised an interviewer in 2021 how his submarine, Challenger Deep, sustained a broken thruster throughout his journey to the ‘really spectacular’ Mariana Trench, which lies seven miles under the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
He mentioned: ‘The sub has many security options, together with 4 days’ reserve of oxygen, water and emergency rations.
‘The one downside is that there isn’t any different sub that’s able to taking place there to rescue you. It would take three years to construct one other one. So, having 4 days of provide would not make a distinction actually. If one thing goes fallacious, you aren’t coming again.’
An worker of Mr Harding final evening revealed the billionaire had wished to go on the journey for ‘a very long time’ – including there may be nonetheless ‘loads of air’ onboard
Mr Harding, who runs an aviation firm in Dubai, additionally has the excellence of taking the oldest man – moon-landing astronaut Mr Aldrin, on the age of 86 – and the youngest, his 12-year-old son, to the South Pole, saying: ‘Buzz is an outdated good friend of mine. We had all the time talked about going to the South Pole collectively and we lastly did it in 2016.’
An solely little one, Mr Harding was born in Hammersmith, London, in 1964, and has levels in pure sciences and chemical engineering from the Cambridge College.
Final 12 months, he was considered one of six astronauts to go to area on Blue Origin’s fifth human area flight aboard its New Shepard rocket.
Earlier than one other journey – to the North Pole two months earlier than going into area – he mentioned: ‘Folks, particularly as they get older, have a tendency to surrender on their goals.
‘Once I consider one thing uncommon, I simply attempt to discover methods to make it occur.’
A social media put up from Brian Szasz, the stepson of Hamish Harding
A submersible craft used to take folks to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone lacking within the Atlantic Ocean with its crew on board
