Suleman Dawood (left) and his father were in an accident on the Titan submersible.
On June 26, BBC reported that 19-year-old Suleman Dawood, who died on the Titan submersible while visiting the Titanic wreck, had wanted to break the world record for solving a Rubik's cube under the sea.
Suleman registered with Guinness World Records and his father, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, brought a camera with him, intending to capture the moment.
While the father and son and three others went diving to the Titanic wreck on June 18, the mother, Christine Dawood, and her daughter waited on the Polar Prince support ship above the water.
Why didn't the man who escaped death by refusing to board the Titan submersible during the tragic trip participate?
In her first interview since her husband and son died, Mrs. Dawood said she had planned to go see the Titanic wreck with her husband, but the tour was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
"Then I backed off and gave way to Suleman because he really wanted to go," the mother said, adding that her son loved solving the Rubik's Cube so much that he always carried it with him and surprised many people when he was able to solve it in 12 seconds.
"He said he would solve the Rubik's cube at a depth of 3,700 meters below the seabed near the Titanic wreck," she said.
Suleman is a student at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, UK. Shahzada Dawood, who holds British, Pakistani and Maltese citizenship, comes from one of Pakistan's wealthiest families.
Suleman wearing a rubik's cube
BBC SCREENSHOT
The couple have two children, daughter Alina, 17, who was on the Polar Prince. Mrs Dawood said that on June 18, which was also “Father’s Day”, they hugged and laughed before her husband and son boarded the Titan submersible.
"I'm so happy because both of them really wanted to do it for a long time," the mother said, adding that her husband is someone who is always curious about the world around him, the type of person who always shows the whole family documentaries after dinner.
The mother and daughter were on the submersible as the search and rescue mission turned from hopeful to desperate. "I thought I was done for when I hit 96 hours," she said, referring to the maximum amount of oxygen available in the submersible.
Daughter Alina held out hope for longer and only gave up when she called the US Coast Guard and they said they had found the wreckage.
The family returned to St. John’s on June 24 and held funeral prayers for their loved one. Mrs. Dawood said she and her daughter would try to learn how to solve a Rubik’s cube in honor of Suleman, and she planned to continue her husband’s business.
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