Suleman Dawood, 19, died on the Titan alongside his father, Shahzada Dawood, last week when the vessel suffered a 'catastrophic implosion'.
were also killed in the incident during the Titan's descent to view the wreckage of the Titanic on the ocean floor.the Polar Prince support vesselMrs Dawood said her son "did not go anywhere without his Rubik's Cube" and had applied to the Guinness World Records."He was so excited about this."
A video published by the BBC shows the young Suleman rapidly twisting the coloured cube in his hands, solving it in just 20 seconds.Mrs Dawood told the BBC she was initially planning to visit the Titanic wreck alongside her husband, but their trip was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic, and she later "stepped back" because her son "really wanted to go".
Her account contradicts reports from Suleman's aunt, who told NBC News the teenager was "terrified" about the trip but wanted to please his father. Mrs Dawood said before her husband and son went down in the Titan, they hugged and joked about Mr Dawood's excitement. "The sentence, 'We lost comms…', I think that will be a sentence I never want to hear in my life again," she said in the BBC interview.
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