Titan Submarine widow accuses the American ego and arrogance for a disaster in which the billionaire husband and son was killed

The wife of one of the men who die in the Titan -u boat disaster has blamed “ego and arrogance” for the death of her husband and son.

Christine Dawood lost her billionaire British-Pakistanian husband Shahzada (48) and son Suleman, 19, on board the Oceangate ship on a tour of the Titanic Wrack in June 2023.

The CEO of Oceangate, Stockton Rush, 61, the British businessman Hamish Harding, 58, and former French navy diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet (77) also died when the submarine imploded almost 4 km below the sea and immediately killed on board.

Now Ms. Dawood, who was born in Germany, calls for Surrey, a proper regulation of the sector after concerns about the safety of the ship have primarily expressed.

She criticized Stockton, of which she said that she had given her titanically obsessed husband and son on the journey of $ 250,000 per capita, the BBC: “I think to talk and present itself to the American way is very different from ours. I thought they were much more self-centered.

“I mean there is a lot” We are great “and the American dream, and” we can do it. “

Ms. Dawood was horrified by the ongoing two -year examination of the tragedy, in which he asked how Ocangate could operate after multiple security.

“I wanted to hear the trust of the person it built, who led the company, but he surrounded himself with literal experts. I mean, one died with them. If they have such an expert with them, they have no doubt. '

She continued: “The arrogance of those responsible, if they believe that they are more than anything. That really comes to me.

“Why is ego and arrogance more important than security? Irony is not lost that the Titanic has dropped for exactly the same reasons. '

It is believed that the ship has imploded about 90 minutes after its descent and that its rubble was later 330 meters from the slogan.

The diving cast suddenly lost contact with his support ship Polar Prince after almost an hour and 45 minutes after the two and a half hours.

One of the last messages of the crew to Polar Prince before the diver imploded, said, according to a visual post -writing, which was presented last year at a hearing of the coast guard.

However, the loss of contact triggered an international search to track down the missing ship, which had fallen 12,400 feet – more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon – under the northern Atlantic.

Finally, however, the rubble of the ship on the sea floor was found about 330 meters from the Titanic bow, the officers of the coast guard reported that nobody survived on board.

Ms. Dawood told how a certain learned that the submarine had been imploded, as this meant that her husband and son did not suffer as they had been killed immediately.

And she is currently part of a challenge to honor her son's death by moving 800 km from Surrey to Glasgow.

After the tragedy, questions arose about the safety of the diving grosses that had traveled the trips to the Titanic WRACK location by 2021.

It was later announced that the ship was operated by a video game controller and that the managers in the field of deep-sea exploration had warned Mr. Rush five years earlier that the company's “experimental” methods could end in the catastrophe of 'catastrophic'.

Others in the company also expressed concerns, including David Lochridge, who worked as a director for Marine Operations of the Titan Project.

He had requested stricter security tests on the U -Bahn – including “tests to prove his integrity”.

Lochridge also wanted the company to carry out a scan from Titan's fuselage in order to recognize potential defects instead of relying on acoustic surveillance that only found a problem “milliseconds before an implosion”.

But he was subsequently booted by the company when Rush constantly removed the concerns.

He even suggested that questions about the security instructions of the titanium were “personally insulting” and he claimed that he “would kill someone as” unfounded “.

Rush went so far that he “tired of industries players who try to use a security argument to stop innovation” because he seemed annoying about the “obscene” regulations, which he regarded as an obstacle to development and innovation.

He also died in the incident.

Until September last year, the US Coast Guard carried out public hearings to Grill Company executives, which may have gone wrong.

During the hearing, Karl Stanley claimed that a diving pilot and designer of the Roatan Institute of Deepsea Exploration claimed that the Rush was rather concerned about leaving his traces in history than protecting his passengers.

“He knew that it would end at some point and he would not be held accountable,” said Stanley.

“But he would be the most famous of all of his famous relatives.”

Stanley continued that he tried to mark security concerns, which he noted during a test drive in April 2019, including cracking noises and problems with waste weights. He sent Rush, who dismissed the concerns.

“I also had the feeling that this exchange of e -mails stressed our relationship from what it had been before,” he said. “I had the feeling that I pushed things as far as possible without him to tell me that I should keep my flap and never speak to him again.”

And this week, Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, shows by the US Coast Guard, which was published by the US Coast Guard, tries to contact the crew, condemned to fail during her descent to the wreck.

Ms. Rush, who monitored the progress of the subs from a support ship, can be seen how a noise reacts that sounded like a “door beats”.

Then she turns to a team member sitting behind her and asks: “What was this bang?”

Moments later received Ms. Rush, who was director of Oceangate with her husband, an SMS message that the U -boat had dropped two weights.

While she first assumed that the dive was going as planned, the investigators now believe that the “bang” she heard was the moment in which the sub had imploded.

It is believed that the message she received was actually sent shortly before the tragedy, with its arrival delayed due to the imposion sound.

Ocangate based in Washington State has suspended his operations after the implosion. The company currently has no full -time employees, but was represented by a lawyer during the hearing.

The company said that since the beginning of the coast guard and the investigation of the National Transportation Safety Board has been fully worked together.