Christine Dawood tells the BBC that she would actually have followed the submarine down to the Titanic with her husband, but that the trip was first canceled due to the corona pandemic.
“Then I gave up and gave the opportunity to Suleman, because he really wanted to go,” she says.
Suleman Dawood had applied to Guinness to set a world record by solving the Rubik’s Cube down by the wreck at a depth of 3,800 meters. The whole thing was to be documented by his father Shahzada Dawood, who also died in the accident.
Christine Dawood and her daughter Alina, 17, were on board the companion ship Polar Prince when word came that they had lost contact with the submarine.
“I think I lost hope when 96 hours had passed,” she says.
According to Christine Dawood, her son loved the Rubik’s Cube so much that he always carried one with him and impressed those around him by solving the complex puzzle in twelve seconds. He studied at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and came from one of Pakistan’s richest families.
Suleman Dawood’s aunt Azmeh Dawood has previously stated that her nephew was “terrified” of the expedition but chose to go along because it was Father’s Day that weekend.