‘I Will Never Be the Same’

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‘I Will Never Be the Same’

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Christine Dawood lost her husband, Shahzada Dawood, 48, and her son, Suleman, 19, in the Titan submersible implosion

Later this year, the

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is expected to release its final report detailing the results of the investigation

On June 18, 2023, the Titan submersible

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to visit the Titanic wreckage, killing all five passengers inside.

Christine Dawood lost her husband, Shahzada Dawood, 48, and her son, Suleman, 19, in an instant. Christine is now speaking out in a new documentary,

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, as the second anniversary of the tragedy approaches.

Later this year, the

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is expected to release its final report detailing the results of the investigation. But Dawood said nothing can return her loved ones.

“They’re never going to come back. Their voices are still in the house, their memories are in the house,” Dawood said in the documentary, which was released on May 28. “No matter what the investigation is, the rooms are still empty.”

In addition to the Dawoods, the disaster also

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of Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, and French diver and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.

In late June 2023,

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debris from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Dawood

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she was initially supposed to go on the excursion with her husband, but allowed her son to go in her place, “because he really wanted to go.” She and her daughter Alina, then 17, were on a support vessel when it lost the ability to communicate with the Titan, per the BBC.

Reflecting on the fatal excursion, she’s struck by the attitude of those responsible for executing the trip.

“This arrogance of the people in charge – when they think they’re above everything, that really gets to me,” Dawood said. “Like why is ego and arrogance more important than safety? The irony is not lost on me that the Titanic sunk for exactly the same reason. History repeats itself.”

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In the aftermath, Dawood said she’s been reshaped by the loss of her husband and son.

“I think I will never be the same. I don’t think that anybody who goes through loss and such a trauma can ever be the same,” she said.

Dawood added that one particular message from officials comforted her in the wake of the tragedy.

“One of the most important things that came out for me was when the Coast Guard also assured us as a family that we couldn’t have known. For me that was – yeah, I guess the most important reassurance they could have given me,” she said.

Now, she’s hoping to move on knowing that no results from the investigation will change her new reality. Dawood suggested that the person responsible for the deadly tragedy can no longer be held accountable, seemingly alluding to CEO Stockton Rush without naming him.

“We’re not looking for blaming,” Dawood said. “We all know who the culprit is. [But] it’s not changing anything, does it? The culprit died with them, right? So who am I to blame?”

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