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The mother of the 19-year-old passenger aboard the doomed Titan submersible said in her first interview since authorities confirmed its “catastrophic” implosion that the teenager had been excited to go on the deep-sea expedition.
Suleman Dawood and his father, Shahzada Dawood, were killed alongside three other men on the OceanGate vessel, which is believed to have been 3,500 meters below sea level when it went missing last Sunday. An international search-and-rescue effort came to an end on Thursday after debris was discovered on the ocean floor.
Christine Dawood told the BBC that she had intended to join her husband on the submersible before their plans were scuttled by the COVID-19 pandemic.