Shahzada Dawood, one of the missing passengers, is a shareholder of SETI Institute in Mountain View. The CEO of the nonprofit says his team was devastated to hear the news.
"He's on the submersible. He was at our board meeting in April and telling me about this trip coming up. He was very excited about it. And so I knew that he was going on this expedition," Diamond said in an interview with ABC7 News. "And of course, then to hear the shocking news that the communication had been lost an hour and a half into the dive was pretty devastating."
Dawood is a British-Pakistani businessman who boarded the tour with his university-aged son Suleman and three other travelers. The missing Titan tour sub was first reported on Sunday and search-and-rescue efforts have been underway by the US Coast Guard and other agencies ever since."His son, you know, is not associated with the Institute, per se, but of course, he's the son of somebody who is, and it is kind of extraordinary," Diamond said.
"I mean, it's kind of ironic in a way that the search is very much like a SETI endeavor in SETI. We're looking for phenomena that nature doesn't produce. And that's the same thing that they're doing here," he said. "They're looking for, you know, sonar blips, or audio noises and signals or other signs of technology that would indicate 'this is not nature here.
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