Eerie connection to tragic love story: Did the ancestors of Oceangate’s CEO’s wife die on the Titanic?

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The chance that the crew of the submarine missing since Sunday will be found alive is decreasing by the hour. According to official calculations, the oxygen has now run out and the hope of saving lives is minimal. At the same time, more and more details about the missing passengers are emerging.

One of those details is particularly creepy. As the “New York Times” reported Thursday, Wendy Rush, the wife of Oceangate’s CEO and helmsman of the unfortunate submarine Stockton Rush, 61, is said to be the great-great-granddaughter of Ida and Isidor Straus. The Strauss died during the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 – so on the ship that her husband now wanted to dive.

Ida and Isidor Straus are said to have released their places in the lifeboats for women and children. The couple, who have been married for 40 years, refused to board the plane to rescue younger passengers, according to eyewitnesses. Records show that they drowned together and were seen embracing at the rail of the luxury liner shortly before their deaths.

The American director James Cameron (68) devoted a prominent role to the wealthy couple in his legendary 1997 film “Titanic”: A heartbreaking scene shows the couple arm in arm on the bed of their luxurious cabin, while the water slowly rises around them. rises.

The Oceangate boss’s wife dived three times to the wreck herself

According to the report, Wendy Rush, who is now worried about her husband, is descended from Minnie Straus, the daughter of Ida and Isidor. Wendy and Stockton Rush have been married since 1986. Rush founded Oceangate in 2009.

Wendy Rush studied at the renowned Princeton University and also works in her husband’s company. She is a member of Oceangate’s senior management team as Head of Communications. Rush is also a longtime board member of the company’s charitable foundation. It is said that she has dived the wreck of the Titanic three times in the last three years. Rush did not comment on the “NYT”, nor on her husband’s disappearance, nor on the famous ancestors.

In recent days, possible technical defects on the submarine “Titan” have made headlines. According to media reports, there is no GPS system. The passengers of the “Titan” are therefore completely dependent on the sonar buoys of the mother ship. (A)

Source: Blick