Reports have revealed that the wife of missing OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush is a descendants from a pair of Titanic victims.
According to The New York Times, Wendy Rush, the head of OceanGate communications, is a great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, two passengers of the Titanic.
First-class passenger Isidor Straus refused to board a lifeboat as women and children remained on board the sinking ship, and he was joined by his wife Ida, who refused to leave his side.
According to the publication, the pair, who were among the wealthiest guests on board, were seen standing arm in arm on the liner’s deck when it went down.
The RMS Titanic’s final resting place in the North Atlantic Ocean is roughly 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. It went down in 1912, killing over 1,500 people on board. It is located at 41o43’32″N, 49o56’49″W.
PUNCH METRO reported that the submersible disappeared less than two hours after it submerged Sunday afternoon.
Along with Rush, who served as the vessel’s pilot, the missing include British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani tech and energy mogul Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Sulaiman, and famed Titanic explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
