Titan Sub Widow Received ‘Slush That Was Left’ of Husband and Son in ‘Shoeboxes’ 9 Months After Implosion

Christine Dawood has revealed that her husband and son’s remains were delivered to her in “two small boxes, like shoeboxes” nine months after they tragically died in the OceanGate expedition implosion.

Shahzada Dawood and Suleman Dawood were just 43 and 19 when they perished on the Titan submersible, which imploded in June 2023 during an expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic.

Nearly three years later, Christine has opened up about the harrowing state the remains were in after they had been recovered from the seabed and DNA tested by the US Coast Guard.

Speaking to The Guardian on Saturday, April 25, she said: “We didn’t get the bodies for nine months. Well, when I say bodies, I mean the slush that was left. There wasn’t much they could find. They have a big pile they can’t separate, all mixed DNA, and they asked if I wanted some of that, too. But I said, ‘No, just what you know is Suleman and Shahzada.’ ”

Christine said she’s gone through “two very different pains” while grieving her son and husband, and she hasn’t touched Suleman’s bedroom, nor Shahzada’s study, since they tragically passed.

She added: “I go into Suleman’s room. Sometimes I find the cat sleeping on his pillow and I sit on the bed and let the grief come. And after a while I can put the grief away until the next time it gets too much.”

Christine has suffered panic attacks following the pair’s passing, and told how she is “only now” starting to grieve Shahzada.

Shahzada and Suleman lost their lives alongside fellow passengers Hamish Harding, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and Stockton Rush, who died 90 minutes into the doomed expedition.

Christine was initially due to go herself, but she gave the place to her son.

“I was happy for him to make memories with his father, ” she added. “I can’t change that.”

While the pair were killed during an expedition to view the Titanic wreckage, Christine still has a 9,090-piece Lego model of the doomed British ocean liner in a glass-fronted cabinet in the center of her kitchen.

Suleman spent nearly two weeks constructing the replica of the Titanic — which sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912 after hitting an iceberg — and Christine couldn’t bear to destroy the model, despite admitting visitors are “always a bit shocked” to see it in her house following the Titan tragedy.

She said: “What was I going to do? Break it up? Hide it away? Suleman put all those hours in. He’d been fascinated with the Titanic since we went to a huge exhibition when we lived in Singapore.”