One of the passengers had completed more than 35 dives to the Titanic site and supervised the recovery of over 5,000 artefacts - while another had accompanied former astronaut Buzz Aldrin to the South Pole.
were on board the small vessel, with Foreign Secretary James Cleverly describing their loss as"tragic news".
He was based in the United Arab Emirates, where he worked as chairman for an aircraft brokering company called Action Aviation. In 2016, he accompanied former astronaut Buzz Aldrin to the South Pole, when Aldrin became the oldest person ever to reach the Antarctic region at the age of 86. Their firm - Dawood Hercules Corp - invests across the country in agriculture, petrochemicals and telecommunication infrastructure.
"You can see inside, we dipped down and saw the grand staircase and saw some of the chandeliers still hanging." "What I worry about most are things that will stop me from being able to get to the surface - overhangs, fish nets, entanglement hazard," Mr Rush told CBS News last year.
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