Student, 19 killed in Titanic submarine implosion joined crew to please dad for Father’s Day – Aunt reveals

The British university student who was killed in the tragic Titanic submarine implosion was ‘terrified’ about the trip and only joined the crew to please his dad for Father’s Day, his heartbroken aunt, Azmeh Dawood has revealed.

Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, 19, were two of the five victims killed instantly when the OceanGate submersible suffered a ‘catastrophic implosion’ just 1,600ft from the bow of the Titanic, according to the US Coast Guard.

The other victims were OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French Navy veteran Paul-Henri (PH) Nargeolet, and British billionaire Hamish Harding.

Dawood told NBC News that Suleman told a relative he wasn’t feeling well but felt obligated to impress his father, who was particularly interested in the 1912 shipwreck.

She said, “I am thinking of Suleman, who is 19, in there, just perhaps gasping for breath… It’s been crippling, to be honest.”

She added, ‘I feel disbelief. It’s an unreal situation.’

Azmeh, who like the other anxious relatives were hoping for a miracle, continued: ‘I feel like I’ve been caught in a really bad film, with a countdown, but you didn’t know what you’re counting down to.’

She said she ‘personally found it kind of difficult to breathe thinking of them’, adding: ‘It’s been unlike any experience I’ve ever had’.