‘I Stepped Back and Gave My Space to My Son’ - Shahzada Dawood’s Wife Reveals She Was Originally Scheduled To Join Titanic Submersible

Christine Dawood, the wife of late British businessman Shahzada Dawood, has revealed she gave up her space on the sub to her son, Suleman.

Christine revealed in an interview that she was supposed to travel to the Titanic with her husband, something he really wanted to do, but she stepped back to allow her son go on the trip.

According to her, her son was super excited about the trip and even took along a Rubik’s cube to solve on the bottom of the ocean.

A British businessman of Pakistani origi, Shahzada Dawood was one of five people who died aboard the Oceangate submersible Titan after it imploded on its journey to view the wreck of the Titanic.

His son, Suleman Dawood, also died in the implosion.

In her first interview since the tragedy, 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.

“I was really happy for them because both of them, they really wanted to do that for a very long time,”

Speaking of her son, Mrs Dawood said Suleman loved the Rubik’s Cube so much that he carried it with him everywhere, dazzling onlookers by solving the complex puzzle in 12 seconds.

“He said, ‘I’m going to solve the Rubik’s Cube 3,700 metres below sea at the Titanic’.”

Mrs Dawood also revealed how they felt on the Titan mother ship, the Polar Prince, when they heard that the trip had gone awry.

“We all thought they are just going to come up, so that shock was delayed by about ten hours or so.

“By the time they were supposed to be up again, there was a time…. when they were supposed to be up on the surface again and when that time passed, the real shock, not shock but the worry and the not so good feelings, started.

“We had loads of hope, I think that was the only thing that got us through it because we were hoping and… there were so many actions the people on this sub can do in order to surface… they would drop the weights, then the ascent would be slower, we were constantly looking at the surface. There was that hope.

There was so many things we would go through where we would think “it’s just slow right now, it’s slow right now”. But there was a lot of hope.”

Source: Nigeriabombshell.com