The father and son who were among the five people who died on the sub as it dived to tour the Titanic wreckage couldn't wait for the excursion — and the teen had his eye on setting a world record, according to the wife and mother of the victims.
as it dived to tour the Titanic wreckage couldn't wait for the excursion — and the teen had his eye on setting a world record, according to the wife and mother of the victims. Christine Dawood told CBS News' partner network that she was originally meant to be on the small submersible with her husband, Shahzada, but gave the spot to her 19-year-old son Suleman after seeing how excited he was about the prospect of seeing the Titanic.
According to Dawood, Suleman brought his Rubick's Cube on the submersible and planned to set the Guinness World Record for the deepest-ever completion of the puzzle once they reached the famous shipwreck. He could solve the three-dimensional puzzle in 12 seconds, she told BBC, and took it with him everywhere.
Christine Dawood said she was with her 17-year-old daughter, below deck on the Titan's support ship, the Polar Prince, when she first found out that contact had been lost with the submersible on June 18. After that, she said she had"tried really hard not to show" her daughter that she'd lost hope, as they both wished for a call from the U.S. Coast Guard, which was leading the search effort.
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