“We promised ourselves we’re going to learn it for Suleman,” said Dawood. However, the pair have vowed to learn to solve the Rubik’s Cube, she added. “Is there such a thing? I don’t know,” she said. “I said: ‘I’m preparing for the worst.’ That’s when I lost hope,” she said.Īs for what happens now, Dawood said she doubted she and Alina would ever be able to find closure. “I think I lost hope when we passed the 96 hours mark,” Dawood said, adding that at that point she messaged her family. “I didn’t comprehend at that moment what that meant – and then it just went downhill from there,” she saidĮveryone thought the submersible would resurface, Dawood added. She did recount the moment that those on board the Polar Prince support vessel – including herself and her 17-year-old daughter, Alina – were told that staff were no longer able to communicate with the Titan. “I was really happy for them because both of them, they really wanted to do that for a very long time,” she added.Īsked how she felt now about her son taking her place on the submersible, Dawood declined to say. “Then I stepped back and gave the space to Suleman because he really wanted to go,” Dawood said. She had originally planned to make the trip with her husband because Suleman was too young at the time.
The family had been planning a trip on the Titan submersible for some time, Dawood said, but it was postponed by the Covid-19 pandemic. “He had this ability of childlike excitement,” she said. “He was so excited about this,” Dawood said of her son, describing how he taught himself to solve the puzzle using YouTube videos.ĭawood also revealed that she met husband Shahzada at university, and recalled how his great curiosity about the world meant he would make the family watch documentaries together. “He said, ‘I’m going to solve the Rubik’s Cube 3,700 meters below sea at the Titanic,’” she added. Sign up for breaking news alerts from CTV News.“Suleman did not go anywhere without his Rubik’s cube,” Dawood told the BBC in her first interview since the tragedy. Christine Dawood, whose husband Shahzada and son Suleman died aboard the Titan submersible, has revealed that the 19-year-old was a Rubik’s Cube obsessive who could solve the puzzle in 12 seconds.
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