A friend of the billionaire on the missing OceanGate Expeditions submarine in the North Atlantic Ocean canceled his previously booked trip on the vessel due to safety concerns. Chris Brown (pictured above, right — not to be confused with that Chris Brown) is a 61-year-old multimillionaire in digital marketing.
Brown is also a very close friend of Hamish Harding, the 58-year-old aviation broker billionaire (pictured above, left) who is one of the five men in a sub lost in the Atlantic Ocean right now.
As it turns out, Brown turned down the expedition after becoming concerned about its safety several years ago. Related: Missing Titanic Tourist Sub Billionaire’s Last Text Revealed As we’ve been reporting, rescuers are frantically searching for Harding and four others — OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, professional diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, businessman Shahzada Dawood, and his teenage son Suleman Dawood — as they are in the missing submersible and quickly running out of breathable oxygen.
For Brown, that was apparently always a concern. The thrill seeker spoke to The Sun on Tuesday about how he and Harding both first agreed to go on OceanGate’s Titanic expedition way back in 2016.
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