JTG MINI: "When I say bodies, I mean the slush that was left." The woman who lost her family in the Titan sub disaster.
4/28/202637 min
Christine Dawood gave up her seat on the OceanGate Titan sub, so her 19-year-old son Suleman could see the Titanic. Just hours later, Suleman and his father Shahzada were dead. Three years on from the disaster that killed both of them, along with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, Christine has published a book called 'Ninety-Six Hours - A Mother's Search For The Lost Titan Sub', and given a heartbreaking interview to The Guardian about what really happened in the hours after the Titan imploded. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of Christine Dawood: the OceanGate Titan disaster, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, Stockton Rush, the seat she gave up, and the four days she waited at sea for news she didn't want to hear.
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Christine Dawood on the Titan Submersible Disaster (The Guardian, April 2026)
'Ninety-Six Hours - A Mother's Search For The Lost Titan Sub' by Christine Dawood (Whitefox, 2026)
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First 90 secondsRosie Waterland· Host0:00
Beep boop, beep boop, beep boop. A Just a Network production. Beep boop boop. [laughs] [laughs] That sounds good. So this mini's a bit different this week because I started putting this together as, like, it was just gonna be a segment in breaking news for Just a Network Club members, and but then it was, there was just so much of it I wanted to include and put in.
James Joseph· Host0:27
Mm-hmm.
Rosie Waterland· Host0:27
I was like, "I think this is a bit of a mini." Yeah.
James Joseph· Host0:30
Let's upgrade it.
Rosie Waterland· Host0:30
Let's upgrade it to a mini. So we have talked about, we did a mini on actually the Titan OceanGate disaster.
James Joseph· Host0:37
Mm-hmm.
Rosie Waterland· Host0:38
The submersible submarine that went down to the Titanic and boosh.
James Joseph· Host0:42
Imploded.
Rosie Waterland· Host0:42
Um, that happened now in, gosh, 2023, so coming up on three years. And now the wife and mother of the father and son who died, so Shada- Shahzada and Suleman Dawood. Shahzada was 48, Suleman was 19. They died in the wreckage. And, uh, Christine Dawood, the wife and mother of them, has written a book.
James Joseph· Host1:11
Oh.
Rosie Waterland· Host1:12
Um, she was on the boat while they were down there.
James Joseph· Host1:16
Oh.
Rosie Waterland· Host1:17
And she's done a couple of interviews. She did one with 60 Minutes Australia. But, like, she's written a book called 96 Hours, and it's all about the 96 hours she