![]() ![]() But OceanGate staff in a control room lost contact with the submersible and have been unable to determine what has happened to its occupants.Īn international rescue effort has so far been unable to locate the craft, with experts predicting the five passengers will use up all available oxygen by Thursday afternoon.Ī statement on the Pembroke College Ball’s official website, which has since been deactivated, said the theme was “chosen many months ago,” adding: “If we could change it now, we would.” The ball’s official Instagram page has also been set to “private”.Ī source at the college confirmed the event had gone ahead as planned on Wednesday night, but Pembroke did not respond to a request for comment from The Telegraph. The expedition began on Sunday and planned to descend to 3,800 metres below sea level to visit the Titanic wreck. He boarded the submersible for a journey to the Titanic wreckage alongside his father, Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood. It emerged on Thursday that Suleman Dawood, a 19-year-old business student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, is one of the passengers. Mr Harding, a billionaire British businessman, attended the college in the 1980s and is among five people trapped on the Titan in the Atlantic Ocean. ![]() But perhaps they are not old enough for that.” Perhaps we are lucky they didn’t play Yellow Submarine. “They ought to think more than twice, and show consideration. They would have had a record of him studying there, I would have thought. “That’s terrible – polite courtesy has missed out on quite a few generations,” she told The Telegraph. Kathleen Cosnett, 69, Mr Harding’s cousin, said it was “unbelievable” that the college had gone ahead with an event in such “extremely bad taste”. The college said that by the time the OceanGate Titanic expedition had become an international rescue mission, it was too late to change its theme. Pembroke College students attended an “Into the Depths” ball, themed on under-sea exploration, and sang sea shanties and reportedly danced to Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On – the theme from the 1997 film Titanic – on Wednesday night. ![]() The family of Hamish Harding, the billionaire missing aboard the Titan submersible, has condemned the “extremely bad taste” of a submarine-themed ball held at his former Cambridge college hours before oxygen on the craft was expected to run out. ![]()
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