Wife of father and son who died in Titan sub said passengers listened to their favorite music in their final moments

• The wife and mother of two passengers who died in the Titan submersible shared what she knew of their final moments.

• Shahzada and Suleman Dawood were thrilled about the trip, Christine Dawood told The New York Times.

• The duo and other passengers brought their favorite music to share with each other, she said.

Passengers aboard the doomed Titan submersible were encouraged to play their favorite music through a bluetooth speaker onboard, according to a report highlighting how passengers may have spent their final moments underwater.

Christine Dawood, the wife of Shahzada Dawood and mother of Suleman Dawood, both passengers aboard the vessel, recounted her family members' preparations for the trip in a new interview with The New York Times. In the interview, she recalled what her husband and son brought with them, and the last words they shared with her.

Ahead of the plunge, Christine Dawood told the Times that her husband was swayed by a series of presentations made by Henri Nargeolet, a French Titanic expert known as "Mr. Titanic," who had visited the Titanic wreckage 37 times.

"'Oh, my god, this is so cool,'" Christine Dawood remembered Shahzada saying, per the Times. "He was lapping everything up. He had this big glow on his face talking about all this nerdy stuff."

Christine Dawood shared that her husband, the vice chairman of Engro Corporation, one of Pakistan's largest fertilizer companies, was like a "vibrating toddler," and couldn't wait to take the trip. He initially sought to take a trip on the vessel when Suleman was 17 and would not have been allowed to descend, she said, per the Times.

The trip was delayed, due to the pandemic, and this year, Suleman was old enough to join. He brought his Rubik's cube with him.

Passengers were also asked by OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush to bring their most cherished tunes to share with others, but Rush specifically requested no country music on the underwater playlist, per the Times.

Little is known about the events inside the vessel leading up to the passengers' deaths. On June 23, the Coast Guard announced the death of five tourists aboard the deep-sea OceanGate Titan submersible, which was headed for the Titanic shipwreck.

At the time, the Coast Guard said the submersible appeared to have imploded because of a "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber." It is still unclear what transpired, but experts were critical of the vessel's make-shift use of mixed materials like titanium and carbon fiber, as well as the design of the vessel, per the Times.

An implosion would have lasted only milliseconds, according to the Journal of Physics: Conference Series, likely killing all the Dawood men and the other passengers instantly.

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