A BRITISH billionaire had given his perspective on luck and hard work months before he vanished on an expedition to the Titanic.
Hamish Harding is among five passengers who have gone missing on a submarine with a limited air supply.
The tourists, who went missing on Sunday, were on a voyage to the site where the wreck of the RMS Titanic is located, about 13,000 feet from the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
At the time he went missing Harding was based in the United Arab Emirates, where he ran commercial and private aircraft company Action Aviation.
The businessman originally from the United Kingdom spoke with Arabian Gulf Business Insight in September 2022 about his life as the founder and chairman of Action Aviation.
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When asked if luck or hard work counts more, Harding said: "I believe you make your own luck in life.
"You create the environment around you, where luck comes or doesn’t come, based on your decisions, your anticipation of things going wrong, and taking steps before they go wrong."
The billionaire said he was living in his luckiest moment at the time.
He explained: "The business jet market is amazing. It’s booming because during the pandemic, people who could afford them realized they needed private jets to travel and reduce health risks.
"There’s currently a supply and demand issue. A huge number of people are trying to get business jets, with very few available.
"The companies that are best at finding pre-owned jets in the middle of nowhere – people like us with international connections and the initiative to find things are doing very well right now – because people feel they have just got to have these planes."
Pressure is building to find the missing adventurers as the submarine they are traveling on only had a four-day air supply, and two days have already passed since it went missing.
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Experienced diver Joe Radomski, 57, exclusively told The U.S. Sun that he is friends with several people on the trip.
“I know people that are on the expedition, there have been multiple confirmations that my friends Renata Rojas and John Beninati are safe," Joe said.
Joe worries that the passengers will have to free themselves as they have a limited oxygen supply.
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"I don’t know if they have a rover on this trip that can go that deep but rovers have been stuck on these type of shipwrecks before.
“I think they have something like 96 hours of life support and they’ve already been down there 24 hours," he said on Monday.
“If it wasn’t some kind of catastrophic failure they’re going to have to free themselves if they’re stuck because I don’t think they can get another sub that’s capable of going down to that depth within the window," Joe added.
The experienced diver said: “Remember that they’re at 12,500ft - there’s not a lot of subs that are capable of that depth."
Joe did say that the divers could survive longer than their 96 hours of oxygen supply.
“But it’s not like it’s 96 hours and it’s done, they’re in an environment that compensates for scrubbing out carbon dioxide and replenishing the oxygen.
“It’s not like if the 96 hours are up they’re toast," he said. “We can take a pretty low oxygen content and still be conscious.”
