The senator representing Delta north, Ned Nwoko, has claimed that Hamish Harding, one of the men who died in an underwater excursion to see the Titanic wreck had earlier invited him to be part of the team.
In an Instagram post on Friday, Nwoko sl mourned Harding, a British businessman and his friend aboard Titan, the missing submersible.
The US Coast Guard (USCG) reported that the men died from a “catastrophic implosion” after debris believed to be from Titan was found near the Titanic, four days after its disappearance.
But according to Nwoko, national duties made it impossible for him to make the trip.
“We both went on a very dangerous expedition to Southpole Antarctica a few years back. He was a gulf stream pilot who flew across the world in a record-breaking Guinness world record for circumnavigation of the earth some years ago,” Nwoko said.
“He descended into the Mariana. He also invited me on his space shuttle last year and this very Titan ill-fated adventure but I was tied down with national duties.”