The teenager killed in the Titanic tourist submarine was aiming to break the world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube at the deepest level of the ocean.
The teenager killed in the Titanic tourist submarine was aiming to break the world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube at the deepest level of the ocean
Suleman Dawood, 19, was one of the five people alongside his dad Shahzada on board the Titan submersible that imploded on its way to the Titanic wreckage.
His mum Christine – who was with his sister Alina on the submarine’s support vessel the Polar Prince – said about how Suleman was planning to try and break a world record by solving the Rubik's Cube at 3,700m below sea level: “He said, ‘I’m going to solve the Rubik’s Cube 3,700 metres below sea at the Titanic.’”
Mrs Dawood added she and her daughter will try to learn to finish the Rubik’s Cube in Suleman’s honour and that she intends to continue her husband’s work.
She said: “I miss them. I really, really miss them.”
Mrs Dawood added Suleman loved his Rubik's Cube so much he carried it around with him everywhere, managing to solve the puzzle in as little as 12 seconds.
Christine and Alina were left stunned when word came through on Sunday 18 June communications with the Titan had been lost.
She said she was originally meant to go on the trip alongside her husband, but when it was cancelled and rescheduled due to the Covid pandemic, she gave up her spot to her son.
She told the BBC: “I stepped back and gave them space to set (Suleman) up, because he really wanted to go.
“He had this ability of childlike excitement.
"I was really happy for them because both of them, they really wanted to do that for a very long time.”
The other three victims of the Titan disaster were famed French Navy commander-turned-Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, billionaire British explorer Hamish Harding and OceanGate Expeditions’ CEO and founder, Stockton Rush.
Wreckage from the disaster has been found in two debris fields around 1,600 feet from the Titanic site.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are looking into the circumstances of the deaths, and Superintendent Kent Osmond says a team has been formed for a preliminary study into the tragedy that took place in a remote corner of the North Atlantic.