19-year-old Suleman Dawood who died onboard Titan sub took Rubik’s Cube on Titanic journey. Here’s why

By India Today World Desk: Suleman Dawood, one of many 5 passengers killed within the deadly voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic, carried his Rubik’s Cube with him, his mom instructed the media.

The 19-year-old who was onboard the Titan submersible together with his father, Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood, died after the sub imploded underwater. The submersible went lacking on June 18. Shahzada and Suleman, together with three others, died within the “catastrophic implosion”.

Suleman’s mom instructed the BBC that her son had utilized to the Guinness World Records to interrupt the world file and remedy the Rubik’s Cube underwater. Reports counsel that Suleman’s father, Shahzada, even took a digicam with him to seize his son breaking the world file.

“He (Suleman) said I am going to solve the Rubik’s Cube 3,7000 metres below the sea at the Titanic,” she instructed the BBC whereas throwing gentle on her son’s love for the Cube. She additional stated that she and her daughter would study and remedy the Rubik’s Cube in honour of Suleman and that she would proceed her husband’s work.

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Suleman’s mom, Christine Dawood, was on Polar Prince, the submersible’s assist vessel, together with her daughter when she acquired the information of the disappearance of the Titan. The submersible had misplaced contact in lower than two hours after making a dive into the wreckage of the Titanic, which had sunk in 1912.

Speaking concerning the tragedy, she stated, “I think I lost hope when we passed the 96-hour mark (of losing contact with the Titan).”

“I miss them, I really, really miss them,” she instructed BBC.

“I did not comprehend at that moment what it meant and then it just went downhill from there,” Christine instructed the BBC. She additionally talked about her preliminary plans for becoming a member of the deep-sea expedition however her journey was cancelled as a result of pandemic.

“I stepped back and gave them space to set Suleman up because he really wanted to go,” she added.

Earlier, Suleman’s kin had instructed the BBC that he was reluctant about becoming a member of the voyage and was “terrified” concerning the journey within the North Atlantic.

The others who have been killed on the Titan submersible have been Stockton Rush, the 61-year-old CEO of OceanGate and Titan’s pilot, British businessman Hamish Harding, 58, and French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77.

The expedition to the Titanic shipwreck was a tragedy after it was revealed on Thursday that there was a “catastrophic implosion” of the submersible on Sunday, the day it was launched and misplaced all contact.

Parts of the submersible have been discovered on Thursday, roughly 1,600ft (487m) from the bow of the Titanic wreck.

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