Shahzada Dawood’s wife speaks about final moments with family. Christine Dawood, the wife of Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood, who died with his son on the Titanic submersible, recalled the final moments before the family said their final goodbyes.
Mrs. Dawood told the BBC that her husband and son were “so excited” to go down to the ocean floor and see the Titanic wreckage.
Her remarks come just days after the US Coast Guard said the submersible suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” killing all five people on board.
“I think I lost hope when we passed the 96 hours mark. That’s when I sent a message to my family on shore and I said ‘I’m preparing for the worst’. But my daughter did not lose until the Coast Guard called and said they have found the debris,” Mrs Dawood said, recalling the tragedy.
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Christine is a coach and a psychologist from Germany. She had previously written a blog post about surviving a near-fatal plane crash in 2019, which had a profound impact on her life and career.
Mrs. Dawood told the BBC that her son Suleman went to the submersible with his Rubik’s Cube in order to break the world record by completing it underwater.
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The 19-year-old had notified Guinness World Records of his intention to attempt the record. According to the BBC, the teenager’s father even brought a camera with him to capture the moment.
Christine Dawood was with her daughter on Polar Prince, the submersible’s support vessel, when she received word that contact had been lost. Titan, the submersible, vanished less than two hours after diving into the Titanic wreckage, which sank in 1912.
When asked about the final moments of the family, Mrs. Dawood said, “We just hugged and joked actually because Shahzada was so excited to go down. He was like a little child.”
“He had this ability of child-like excitement, so they both were so excited,” she added.
Mrs. Dawood expressed her joy for them, saying the father-son team had “wanted to do this for a really, really long time.”
Shahzada Dawood and Christine had two children, Alina and Suleman, and lived in Surbiton, Surrey.
