Teen on doomed OceanGate sub hoped to break world record for Rubik’s Cube in depths of ocean
By Allie Griffin
June 25, 2023 9:05pm
The 19-year-old who perished in the Titan submersible along with his father had hoped to break a world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in the depths of the ocean.
Sulaiman Dawood brought his Rubik’s Cube with him and his dad grabbed his camera as they boarded the doomed Titanic-bound sub last Sunday, the teen’s devastated mother, Christine Dawood, told the BBC.
“He said, ‘I’m going to solve the Rubik’s Cube 3,700 meters below sea at the Titanic,'” she told the outlet in her first interview since the deaths of her son and husband.
The teen was able to solve the cube puzzle in under 20 seconds and carried it with him everywhere, she added.
The grieving mom said she had originally planned to take the trip to the bottom of the sea with her husband, but the excursion was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the opportunity to board the OceanGate submersible arose again, she said, she let her son go instead.
“Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Sulaiman] up because he really wanted to go,” Christine said.
She and her 17-year-old daughter, Alina, were on the mothership that launched the sub to excitedly see off their husband/father and son/brother on Father’s Day.
“I was really happy for them because both of them, they really wanted to do that for a very long time,” she said.
They were still on the mothership, the Polar Prince, when the team lost communications with the Titan about an hour and 45 minutes after launch.
“I didn’t comprehend at that moment what it meant — and then it just went downhill from there,” Christine told the British publication.
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