Missing submersible: Sheikh Hamdan prays for safe return of five-member crew

Dubai and its people pray for the safety and hopeful return home of the passengers aboard the Ocean Gate Expeditions submersible.

That's the message from His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Dubai Executive Council.

He named the five missing passengers in his Tweet: Dubai resident Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, 77-year-old French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet and CEO of Ocean Gate Expeditions Stockton Rush.

While search teams are working hard to rescue passengers of the OceanGate Submarine: Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, his son Suleman, Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and Stockton Rush; Dubai and its people pray for their safety and hopeful return home. We are following the updates…

— Hamdan bin Mohammed (@HamdanMohammed) June 20, 2023

The 21-foot-long Titan was built to stay underwater for 96 hours and the US Coastguard has said breathable oxygen on board is due to run out Thursday morning. They added that the hunt for the lost vessel is "complex" as they're looking above and below surface level.

The Coast Guard, US Navy, Canadian Coast Guard and the Ocean Explorer have established a unified command to search more than 7,600 square miles of open sea so far, an area larger than the state of Connecticut.