Christine Dawood said goodbye to her husband and child on June 18 as she watched the Titan dive for its final, fateful mission
Among the 5 passengers who met a tragic death inside small submersible Titanwhich exploded while diving on the wreck of the Titanic, was o Pakistani tycoon Shehzada Dawood – administrator of the SETI Institute, a non-profit organization based in California – and his 19-year-old son Suleman..
Tragic figure that the wife of Sehzada and mother of the unfortunate Suleman was left behind – to whom she gave her place because her young son really wanted to go on this mission.
As Christine Dawood complained to the BBC, no one informed her from the beginning about the tragedy of the explosion and she herself hoped and agonized for days that her husband and child could be alive.
Titan dived June 18 to the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic, and should emerge seven hours later. But he lost contact with the ship Polar Prince less than two hours after he left.
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“We lost hope when 96 hours passed and they didn’t find the submarine. Until then every hour we hoped, it was the only thing that kept us standing…”
“I gave him my seat at the last minute…”
Christine and Sehzada had originally booked a trip to the wreck of the Titanic for themselves, but canceled due to the pandemic.
When finally managed to book a place again on this year’s OceanGate Expeditions expeditionshe “stepped back” and gave her place to her son, who really wanted to go exploring the legendary wreck.
The whole family boarded the Polar Prince, the submarine support vessel, on Father’s Day as Sehzada and 19-year-old Suleman prepared for the “trip of a lifetime”.
Suleman had taken the Rubik’s cube with him and hoped to break the world record in the submarine – he himself knew how to solve the famous cube-puzzle in just 12 seconds.
“I’m going to solve the Rubik’s cube 3,700 meters under the sea, on the Titanic” were among the last words he excitedly said to his mother as he looked forward to entering the submarine.
Christine and daughter Alina, 17, said goodbye to their family on June 18 as they watched the Titan dive for its final, fatal mission.
Mother and daughter were still on the Polar Prince when communication with the submarine was lost.
With information from BBC, DailyMail
Source :Skai
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