Teenager Suleman Dawood, who died in the Titan submersible, took his Rubik’s Cube with him because he wanted to break a world record, his mother has told the BBC.
The 19-year-old applied to the Guinness World Records and his father, Shahzada, who also died, had brought a camera to capture the moment.
Christine Dawood and her daughter were on board the Polar Prince, the sub’s support vessel, when word came through that communications with the Titan had been lost.
“I didn’t comprehend at that moment what it meant – and then it just went downhill from there,” she said. In her first interview, Mrs Dawood said she had planned to go with her husband to view the wreck of the Titanic, but the trip was cancelled because of the Covid pandemic. “Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go,” she said.
Mrs Dawood declined to discuss the ongoing investigations into the tragedy. But when asked how she and her daughter would find closure she said: “Is there such a thing? I don’t know.” “I miss them,” she said, taking a deep breath. “I really, really miss them.”
