London student 'scared to make sub dive and only went to please his father'

TITANIC TRAGEDY 19-YEAR-OLD AMONG FIVE KILLED BY 'IMPLOSION' NEAR WRECK OF LINER

- John Dunne

A UNIVERSITY student from south-west London who died in the Titanic submarine disaster was “terrified” about the trip and only joined it to please his dad on Father’s Day, his aunt revealed today.

Businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and son Suleman, 19, from Surbiton were two of the five killed when the Titan submersible suffered a “catastrophic implosion” 1,600ft from the bow of the Titanic, according to the US Coast Guard.

Suleman’s aunt, Azmeh Dawood, said that he “wasn’t very up for it” but wanted to make his father, who was fascinated by the Titanic wreck, proud.

She told NBC News: “Suleman had a sense that this was not okay and he was not very comfortable about doing it. But it was a Father’s Day thing. It was a bonding experience and he wanted the adventure of a lifetime just like his father did. His father wanted it and that was Sule all the way — he would do anything for anyone.”

A former pupil of ACS International School Cobham in Surrey, he had just completed his first year at Strathclyde Business School.

British billionaire Hamish Harding, French submersible pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and OceanGate chief executive Stockton Rush also died on the $250,000-a-head voyage to see the wreck of the Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland.

The rescue operation switched to recovery mode yesterday as the first debris was found. Such was the force of the implosion that no one could have survived, the US Coast Guard said.