The company behind the Titan submersible’s fatal trip to the Titanic wreckage has suspended all operations.
23.06.2023 - 14:35 / perezhilton.com
It’s easy to forget, amid all the talk of the OceanGate disaster killing CEOs and billionaires, that the youngest victim was only 19 years old. Just a kid really. And that young man was “terrified” of the excursion, according to his aunt.
Sadly, we got confirmation on Thursday that the submersible known as the Titan imploded — and all five souls on board were lost. Brit billionaire Hamish Harding, French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood — and his teenage son Suleman Dawood — were lost in the tragic trip to view the Titanic wreckage up close.
Now the Dawood family is speaking out about what was going on with the teen leading up to the excursion.
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The Dawoods were heirs to one of the largest fortunes in Pakistan. 48-year-old Shahzada was the chairman of their family’s Dawood Group, which has been operating in the country for over a century. His son Suleman was still a university student. We’ve heard he was a big science fiction fan who enjoyed puzzles and volleyball. So much potential lost…
On Thursday, ahead of the confirmation of the implosion, Suleman’s aunt Azmeh Dawood spoke to NBC — and described her nephew’s apprehension for the trip in the days leading up to the submersible’s descent. Apparently, the teenager had told one of their relatives he “wasn’t very up for it” and felt “terrified” about going to explore the Titanic wreckage.
So why did he go? Azmeh notes the fact the trip fell on Father’s Day — and Suleman wanted to please his father, who was a huge Titanic enthusiast.
Azmeh recalled growing up with Shahzada, and his fascination with the Titanic, saying they’d constantly
The company behind the Titan submersible’s fatal trip to the Titanic wreckage has suspended all operations.
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Titanic” director James Cameron spoke out during an ABC News interview about the tourist submersible Titan that lost contact on its way to reach the Titanic. After submarine company OceanGate released a statement on Thursday saying that the five people who went down are believed dead, Cameron gave his thoughts on the tragedy as a longtime member of the diving community, who has made 33 trips to the Titanic himself. “People in the community were very concerned about this sub,” Cameron said. “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified. I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result. For us, it’s a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded. To take place at the same exact site with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal.”
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many red flags” that came up during his chat with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush. “Yes, I was pretty terrified.