{"id":3886,"date":"2023-06-20T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/06\/20\/my-biggest-fear-friend-of-british-billionaire-lost-on-tourist-trip-to-titanic-speaks\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:29:14","slug":"my-biggest-fear-friend-of-british-billionaire-lost-on-tourist-trip-to-titanic-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/my-biggest-fear-friend-of-british-billionaire-lost-on-tourist-trip-to-titanic-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"My biggest fear – friend of British billionaire lost on tourist trip to Titanic speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A friend of the British billionaire missing on a trip to dive to the Titanic has said she fears his submersible is trapped on the sea bed.<\/p>\n
Jannicke Mikkelsen, a Norwegian explorer, said she knew Hamish Harding, 58, would be ‘calm’ amid the crisis.<\/p>\n
He is one of five people on board a submersible, which at 4am on Sunday began its descent to the resting place of the Titanic<\/a>, nearly 13,000 feet below the surface.<\/p>\n The round trip – for which participants pay $250,000 – usually takes eight hours. But contact with the mothership was lost one hour and 45 minutes into the trip, before reaching the wreck, and rescuers are now engaged in a race against time to try and recover the submersible and its crew.<\/p>\n ‘My biggest fear is knowing that they are trapped, without being able to get help,’ said Mikkelsen.<\/p>\n ‘There is no one who can reach him on the bottom.’<\/a><\/p>\n