2023-06-27 10:04:59
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Teenage boy involved in Titan submersible wants to set world record
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19-year-old Suleman Dawood
What: AP
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Actually, Christine Dawood would have climbed into the “Titan” with her husband Shahzada, but she left the place to her son Suleman. “He really wanted to do it,” she says. The 19-year-old wanted to set a world record at a depth of 4,000 meters.
According to his mother, the teenager Suleman Dawood, who died in an accident with the submersible “Titan”, wanted to set a world record on the expedition to the wreck of the “Titanic”. Her son was a gifted Rubik’s Cube player and wanted to solve the rotating puzzle, also known as Rubik’s Cube, at a depth of almost 4 kilometers under the sea, Christine Dawood told the British broadcaster BBC. The 19-year-old even applied in advance for an entry in the “Guinness Book of Records”. In order to capture the moment of success on video, his father Shahzada, who also died, took a camera with him into the small submersible.
Originally she wanted to dive to the “Titanic” with her husband – a British-Pakistani management consultant – said Christine Dawood in the interview that the BBC published on Monday night. But the corona pandemic thwarted the plan – and then her son showed interest in it himself. “Then I gave up and gave them a chance to prepare Suleman because he really wanted to do it.”
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Before the two men finally boarded the “Titan” with three other adventurers, they hugged and joked, she said. Then the submersible descended to the legendary wreck of the luxury liner at a depth of 3800 meters while Christine Dawood and her 17-year-old daughter Alina persevered on board the mother ship “Polar Prince”.
“I never want to hear that sentence once more in my life”
At some point they would have heard that contact with “Titan” had been severed. “I never want to hear the sentence ‘we’ve lost contact’ once more in my life,” said the widow in a halting voice. “At the moment I didn’t understand what that meant. From there it went downhill.”
The mood during the rescue mission changed following a while, and optimism turned to despair. “I think I lost hope when we hit the 96-hour mark,” Dawood recalled — the oxygen reserves on board the Titan should have been around for that amount of time.
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Her daughter clung to the thought for a little longer that the drama would have a happy ending. But then the devastating call from the Coast Guard came: “They basically informed us that they had found debris.” The fragments of the “Titan” were less than 500 meters from the bow of the “Titanic” wreck, the death of the five occupants was thus factually confirmed.
Christine and Alina Dawood have set themselves a personal goal to help them come to terms with the tragedy and preserve Suleman’s memory: his mother and sister want to learn how to solve the Rubik’s Cube puzzle themselves.
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