Heartbroken mum Christine Dawood said the Strathclyde Uni student could solve the complex puzzle in 12 seconds
The heartbroken mother of a Glasgow student who died on board the Titanic submersible with his dad says the teenager took his Rubik's Cube with him because he wanted to break a world record. Suleman Dawood, 19, applied to Guinness World Records and his father, Shahzada, who also died, had brought a camera to capture the moment.
Mrs Dawood said they hugged and made jokes in the moments before her husband and son boarded the Titan submersible. She said the Strathclyde University student loved the Rubik's Cube so much that he carried it with him everywhere, dazzling onlookers by solving the complex puzzle in 12 seconds. Mrs Dawood and her daughter stayed on board the Polar Prince as the search and rescue mission shifted from hopeful to desperate. Mrs Dawood said: "I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go. I was really happy for them because both of them, they really wanted to do that for a very long time."
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