![]() ![]() “For 10 minutes, there was no sound on the submarine.” He said he glimpsed it from inside his submarine, detected with sonar and lit by projectors and said he and the team were left speechless. In an interview with Le Parisien last year, he described the first time he saw the wreck, which lies in total darkness, covered with coral. In 1987 he was part of the team that brought up a series of objects from the wreckage. He had been studying the Titanic for 35 years and had been involved in several submarine expeditions to the wreckage and hundreds of hours of observation. ![]() Nargeolet was a 77-year-old former French navy commander known as “Mr Titanic”. Harding also went into space last year with Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company. Harding made many trips to the south pole and, in 2016, accompanied the former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who became the oldest person to reach there, aged 86. He also previously worked with the Antarctic luxury tourism company White Desert to introduce the first regular business jet service to Antarctica. ![]() He was also a skydiver, was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation in 2022, and was a trustee of the Explorers Club. Harding was an aviator, holding an airline transport pilot’s licence and business jet type ratings, including the Gulfstream G650. He was a student at Cambridge and left with a degree in natural sciences and chemical engineering. His wife is called Linda, and he has two sons named Rory and Giles, as well as a stepdaughter named Lauren and a stepson, Brian Szasz. Harding, 58, was the chair of the private plane firm Action Aviation. ![]()
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