Mom Who Lost Husband, Son On Doomed Titanic Sub Gave Her Place To Her 19 YO At The Last Minute

Christine Dawood, the mother of Suleman Dawood, the 19-year-old who tragically died alongside his father in the Titanic submersible, revealed that she had intended to accompany her husband on the ill-fated dive.

However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, their trip to witness the Titanic wreckage was canceled.

According to the BBC, Christine Dawood stated that she chose to "step back" from the mission to explore the shipwreck this year, allowing her teenage son the opportunity to fulfill his strong desire to visit the Titanic.

"I was really happy for them because they really wanted to do that for a very long time," she told the outlet.

During the dive, their family of four, including Christine Dawood's 17-year-old daughter, was present on the Polar Prince, the submersible's mother ship.

"Sulaiman was really disappointed because they only allowed individuals aged 18 and above," his mother expressed, as he had hoped to set a world record for solving a Rubik's Cube in the ocean's depths. Initially, the trip was planned for Shahzada and herself before the pandemic.

However, when the trip was rescheduled, she decided to step back and allow Sulaiman, as he strongly desired to go.

¡°I was really happy for them because they really wanted to do that for a very long time,¡± she said. She fondly recalled hugging and joking with her husband and son before they entered the submersible.

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On Father's Day, Christine Dawood and her daughter, Alina, shared hugs and jokes with her husband and son before the two men entered the submersible named the Titan.

According to the mom, she was having a snack when she received news that they had lost communication, or "comms," with the sub.

The sub, which a videogame controller operated, has since become controversial.

Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, along with two other passengers and a pilot, went missing on June 18 when the Titan disappeared less than two hours into the dive into the Titanic.

After discovering debris from the Titan at a depth of around 13,000 feet on the ocean floor, authorities declared Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, along with the other passengers, dead on Thursday.

The US Coast Guard reported that the submersible experienced a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber, resulting in its implosion.

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Given the extreme depths involved, any failure in the hull would have immediately resulted in the deaths of all five passengers.

The remaining three passengers on board the submersible were British billionaire Hamish Harding, former French navy diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and Stockton Rush, the company's CEO operating the submersible tours.

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