Christine Dawood, Wife & Mother to Titanic Submersible Victims Shahzada & Suleman, Shares Heartbreaking New Details in New Interview

Christine Dawood, the wife and mother Titanic submersible victims Shahzada Dawood and 19-year-old Suleman Dawood, is speaking out in her first interview since the tragedy occurred.

Christine shared that she and their daughter, Alina, were on board the Polar Prince, the OceanGate sub’s support vessel, when the Titan lost communication with the surface.

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“I didn’t comprehend at that moment what it meant – and then it just went downhill from there,” she shared in an interview with the BBC. “I think I lost hope when we passed the 96 hours mark.” The “96 hour mark” is the amount of oxygen many believed the sub could have should the vessel have been found intact on the ocean floor.

After the 96 hour mark passed, she told the interviewer, “I said: ‘I’m preparing for the worst.’ That’s when I lost hope.”

Alina still had hope, until the debris field was found. “She didn’t lose hope until the call with Coast Guard. When they basically informed us that they found debris,” she shared.

Christine also revealed that she was supposed to be aboard the vessel on one of the voyages, but that specific voyage was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go,” she said. She also shared a heartbreaking detail: Suleman brought his Rubik’s cube with him to the bottom. “He said, ‘I’m going to solve the Rubik’s Cube 3,700 metres below sea at the Titanic,’” she shared about her son.

“I miss them,” she said. “I really, really miss them.”

Our continued thoughts are with the 5 victims of this terrible tragedy, as well as their loved ones.