The young man who died in the Titan accident at the bottom of the sea wanted to set a Rubik's cube world record.
Four thousand meters deep, at the wreckage of the Titanic, the Pakistani young man, who was lost along with his father and three other people in the accident of the diving ship Titan, wanted to set a Rubik's cube world record, he wrote on the website of the British broadcaster BBC on Monday, referring to the boy's mother.
Christine Dawood underlined in her interview with the BBC: her son Suleman Dawood was a talented player and entered the Guinness Book of Records in advance with his attempt. Suleman's father Shahzada also took a camera with him to the depths of the sea to capture the moment.
The mother said that she was originally going to accompany her husband on the dive, but their trip was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Later, his son also showed interest in diving, so he gave up the opportunity in favor of it.
Before departure, the family joked, and then the Titan set off, and Christine and her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alina, waited aboard the mother ship, the Polar Prince, for the return of the submarine, in vain.
Christine said that she lost hope when they crossed the 96-hour mark, since the oxygen reserves on board the Titan would probably have been exhausted by then. The mother said her daughter remained hopeful until the Coast Guard announced that wreckage had been found near the Titanic.
Christine and Alina Dawood have set a personal goal to process the tragedy and preserve Suleman's memory: they both want to learn how to solve the Rubik's Cube.
The Titan submersible, used for tourist purposes, set off on June 18 with five people on board for its originally planned journey of less than half a day to the wreck of the Titanic, which sank in 1912. After the disappearance of the Titan, a large-scale search and rescue operation was launched in an area of about ten thousand square miles of the Atlantic Ocean. The wreckage of the submarine was found on June 22 by a surface-controlled Canadian deep-sea research device at the bottom of the sea, at a depth of almost four thousand meters and about five hundred meters from the wreckage of the Titanic.
MTI
