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Kieren Williams

Billionaire's 'terrified' son agreed to go on Titanic sub with dad for Father's Day

The 19-year-old student who tragically died on the missing Titanic sub, along with four other men, only agreed to go on the trip with his dad for Father’s Day to please him, a family member has revealed.

Suleman Dawood died alongside his father Shahzada, the sub’s pilot and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French naval veteran and ‘Mr Titanic’ Paul-Henri Nargeolet and British billionaire Hamish Harding.

After setting off Sunday, the submersible lost communications with its mother ship after one hour 45 minutes.

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