What did Christine Dawood, wife of Titanic sub disaster victim Shahzada Dawood, say on her feelings during rescue mission?

The spouse of one of the Titan Sub tragedy victims claimed that before boarding the fateful submarine, her husband, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, and their teenage son, Suleman, were eager to visit the Titanic ruin.

On Sunday, June 18 at 8 a.m., Christine Dawood and her daughter Alina were aboard Titan’s mothership, the Polar Prince, when word arrived that they had lost contact immediately after it started to descend.

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While her daughter maintained optimism during the extensive search and rescue operation, which lasted several days, Christine claimed she “lost hope when we passed the 96-hour mark.”

‘That’s when I lost hope. That’s when I sent the message to my family onshore, I said: ‘I am preparing for the worst’.’

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Christine paid respect to her 19-year-old son, a Strathclyde University student who brought his Rubik’s Cube on the trip in an effort to break the current record for deepest Rubik’s Cube solution.

Ending her interview with the BBC, the heartbroken mother said through tears: ‘I miss them. I really, really miss them.’ 

According to the US Coast Guard, two of the five fatalities who perished instantaneously when the submersible had a “catastrophic implosion” approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic were UK billionaire Shahzada and his son Suleman.

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Christine disclosed that the Covid epidemic had forced them to postpone a trip when they were supposed to see the Titanic wreck in the OceanGate submarine.

Christine and her 17-year-old daughter Alina waited for updates at the location where Titan was last observed during the search and rescue mission after communication with the ship was lost.

Along with her husband and son, three other people perished on board Titan: Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77, a veteran Titanic diver who served in the French navy, OceanGate’s CEO Stockton Rush, 61, and British businessman Hamish Harding, 58.