Millionaire businessman and Delta North Senator, Ned Nwoko, has revealed that he was invited to join the ill-fated Titan Submersible that was believed to have suffered a catastrophic implosion on its voyage down to the Titanic shipwreck.
LEADERSHIP reports that five persons on board the Titan Sub, which was initially reported missing, had been confirmed dead.
While mourning his close friend and business partner, Hermish Harding,
Nwoko took to his verified Instagram handle on Friday and explained why he couldn’t make the Titanic tour despite the invitation.
The lawmaker wrote, “I have lost a dear friend and business partner. Captain Hamish Harding. We both went on a dangerous expedition to Southpole, Antarctica, a few years back. He was a Gulf Stream pilot who flew across the world in a record-breaking expedition by the Guinness World Record to circumnavigate the Earth some years ago. He descended into the Mariana.
“He also invited me on his space shuttle last year and this very Titan ill-fated adventure, but I was tied down with national duties. Above all, he was a partner in the various pieces of research into eradicating malaria in Africa project.”
Mr Harding, a British businessman, explorer, and multiple-Guinness World Record holder, including one for the longest time spent traversing the deepest part of the ocean on a single dive, was one of the five persons, who died aboard the imploded submersible.
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