In the living room of a Surrey home sits a Lego model of the Titanic almost one and a half metres long built from more than 9,000 bricks. A 19-year-old boy spent nearly two weeks constructing it. His mother cannot bring herself to take it apart. That boy was Suleman Dawood and he died on 18 June 2023 alongside his father Shahzada when the Titan submersible imploded 500 metres above the Titanic wreck during a dive to the ocean floor. Christine Dawood, wife and mother of the two men who died that day, is speaking publicly about what happened for the first time.
In an extensive interview with the Guardian Christine described how she came to give up her own seat on the Titan so her son could make the dive with his father. Suleman had been fascinated with the Titanic since childhood. The trip felt like a chance to give him an experience he would never forget. She had no reason to believe it would cost him his life.
