Wendy Rush, Wife Of Missing Titan Submarine Pilot, Is Related To Famous ‘Titanic’ Couple

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Stockton Rush was the aviator of the Titan submersible that disappeared connected June 18 portion attempting to presumption Titanic wreckage successful the Atlantic Ocean, and it turns retired that helium has a transportation to the ship. Stockton’s wife, Wendy Rush, descends from a mates who died erstwhile the Titanic deed an iceberg and sank successful 1912, according to The New York Times. Wendy’s relatives are Isidor Straus and Ida Straus. Wendy’s great-grandfather, Richard Weil, was joined to Minnie Straus, 1 of Ida and Isidor’s daughters.

In the 1997 movie, Titanic, a fictionalized mates was portrayed holding onto each different successful furniture arsenic the vessel sank. This mates was reportedly loosely based connected Isidor and Ida. Survivors recalled seeing the mates connected the ship’s platform earlier it sank, according to NYT.

Stockton Rush was connected the submarine that went missing connected June 18. (Shutterstock)

One of Isidor and Ida’s great-grandsons opened up astir the couple’s Titanic acquisition successful a 2017 interview. He said that Ida was connected a lifeboat, escaping the ship, but changed her caput erstwhile she noticed that Isidor was not pursuing her. Since Isidor was aged and wealthy, helium was allowed to get connected the lifeboat, but helium reportedly refused. “My great-grandfather said, ‘No, Until I spot that each pistillate and kid connected committee this vessel is successful a lifeboat, I volition not participate a lifeboat myself,'” Isidor’s great-grandson claimed.

Stockton is the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, which owns the submarine. Along with Stockton, 4 different passengers were aboard the submersible that went missing connected amidst its quest to presumption the remains of the Titanic underwater. The submarine’s oxygen was expected to person tally retired connected the greeting of June 22.

Isidor Straus was a descendant of Stockton Rush’s wife. (Shutterstock)

On the day of June 22, the Coast Guard confirmed that a debris tract had been discovered successful the hunt area. One time prior, the Department of Homeland Security said that crews successful the rescue ngo heard banging sounds astatine 30 infinitesimal intervals during the search. The sub was astir 13,000 feet underwater erstwhile it disappeared.

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