OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush is one of the five people on the missing Titan submersible. As per reports, his wife Wendy’s great-great-grandparents Isidor and Ida die on the Titanic in 1912.
Rush was on the submersible that went missing on Sunday during a trip to visit the Titanic wreckage.
James Cameron, in his 1997 film, Isidor and Ida were ‘depicted lying on a bed embracing as the icy waters rose around them’, the Daily Mail reported.
The couple was offered seats on a lifeboat but Isidor, a former congressman and co-owner of Macy’s department store, refused. He reportedly said that she would not go until all the women and children had gone. His wife, Ida, did not want to be without him. They were married for over 40 years.
Ida, however, gave her mink coat to her maid Ellen Bird to keep her warm. Wendy Rush was born Wendy Hollings Weil. She married Stockton Rush in 1986. Her mother’s name was Minnie, the daughter of Isidor and Ida. Her father’s name was Dr Richard Weil. They got married in 1905.
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Weil Jr served as the president of Macy’s New York, and his son, Dr. Richard Weil III, is Wendy Rush’s father, The New York Times reported. Stockton Rush founded OceanGate in 2009. The 61-year-old was born in Seattle and got his degree in aeronautical engineering from Princeton. He worked on fighter jets and hoped to go to Mars.
The Manned Underwater Vehicles committee of the Marine Technology Society said in a statement that the ‘modern commercial submarine industry’ is ‘regulated in accordance with international safety standards through classification societies.’
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“These organizations have rules and safety standards for the design and construction of systems ranging from submersible vehicles to super tankers and oil platforms. The main classification organizations for submersibles include the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Det Nortke Veritas (DNV) and Lloyds Registry (LR) among others.”
