Wife of lacking submarine Titan’s pilot is descendant of couple who died on Titanic

By India Today World Desk: Wendy Rush, the spouse of the lacking Titanic vacationer submarine pilot, is a descendant of a US couple who died when the large ship sank within the Atlantic Ocean in 1912. The couple have been immortalised in James Cameron’s Hollywood film ‘Titanic’ too.

Wendy Rush is the great-great-granddaughter of the retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his spouse, Ida, who have been travelling as first-class passengers on the Titanic when it hit an iceberg and sank in April 1912. Straus was born in 1845 and was a co-owner of Macy’s division retailer, The New York Times reported.

In 1986, Wendy Rush married Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, the corporate which operates the Titanic vacationer submersible that misplaced contact on Sunday (June 18) and caught world consideration. He was additionally piloting Titan, the submersible that was taking vacationers to the Titanic and has now misplaced contact.

Stockton Rush is among the many 5 on the lacking submarine with rescuers racing towards time to seek out the vessel by intensifying their search with simply hours of oxygen assist remaining. Wendy Rush, the descendant of the Titanic couple, is the OceanGate communications director and has participated within the firm’s three expeditions to the Titanic, in accordance with her LinkedIn profile.

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THE TITANIC COUPLE IMMORTALISED IN MOVIE

According to archival information, Isidor Straus didn’t sit on a lifeboat as a lot of girls and youngsters have been nonetheless aboard the Titanic that was sinking after hitting an iceberg. He was joined by his spouse and remained collectively, standing arm-in-arm until the ship sank.

Some reviews say that Ida Straus handed her mink jacket to her maid as she was being rescued in a lifeboat.

While Straus’s stays have been discovered at sea a number of weeks after Titanic’s sinking, his spouse’s physique was by no means discovered.

The couple’s fictionalised model got here into being within the 1997 Hollywood film Titanic by James Cameron. Straus and his spouse have been portrayed as an aged couple and a shot confirmed them embracing in mattress because the chilly waters of the Atlantic entered their cabin.

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THE ILL-FATED TITAN

Submarine Titan, which started its journey to the Titanic wreck website, located at a depth of 12,500 toes within the Atlantic Ocean, misplaced contact after almost two hours on Sunday. The submarine is supplied with a four-day emergency oxygen assist.

Meanwhile, rescuers on Wednesday (native time) rushed extra ships and vessels to the world the place Titan disappeared, hoping underwater sounds they detected for a second straight day may assist slim their search in an more and more pressing mission.

Crew members have been scouring an space of round 26,000 sq. kilometers in waters 4 kilometres deep, mentioned Captain Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard District.