Missing Titan Pilot’s Wife Also Descendant Of Titanic Couple

Rescuers are battling against time to locate the lost submarine, which includes pilot Stockton Rush, by stepping up their search efforts since there are just a few hours of oxygen supply left. The submarine had set sailed towards the location of the submerged Titanic.

The submersible Titan, which was transporting tourists to the location of the Titanic, has vanished. The great-great-granddaughter of a couple who perished on the Titanic in 1912 is Wendy Rush, the wife of the ship's pilot. First-class passengers of the Titanic were immortalised in James Cameron's 1997 film.

Wendy Rush is a descendant of a US couple who perished in 1912 when an enormous ship sunk in the Atlantic Ocean. Rush is also married to the missing Titanic tourist submarine pilot. The pair is also immortalised in James Cameron's Titanic, a Hollywood production.

Wendy Rush - Wife Of Missing Titan Pilot

Isidor Straus and his wife Ida were first-class passengers aboard the Titanic when it struck an iceberg and sunk in April 1912; Wendy Rush is their great-great-granddaughter. According to The New York Times, Straus, a Macy’s department store co-owner, was born in 1845.

Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, the business that runs the Titanic tourist submersible that lost touch on Sunday (June 18) and attracted notice all over the world, wed Wendy Rush in 1986. Additionally, he was operating Titan, the submarine that was transporting visitors to the Titanic, but he has since lost communication.

According to her LinkedIn page, Wendy Rush, an ancestor of the Titanic marriage, is the OceanGate communications director and has taken part in three of the company's trips to the Titanic.

According to archival archives, Isidor Straus did not board a lifeboat since there were still many women and kids on board the Titanic, which was sinking after hitting an iceberg. He was joined by his wife, and the two of them stood arm-in-arm until the ship capsized.

According to some sources, Ida Straus gave her maid her mink coat as she was being rescued in a lifeboat.

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A few weeks after the Titanic sank, Straus's bones were discovered at sea; however, his wife's body was never located.

The fictionalised version of the pair first appeared in James Cameron's 1997 Hollywood film Titanic. while an elderly couple, Straus and his wife were seen cuddling in bed while the chilly Atlantic seas flooded their cottage.

The Tragedy

The Titan submarine, which set out for the Titanic disaster site in the Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 12,500 feet, lost touch after nearly two hours on Sunday. Emergency oxygen supplies for four days are available on the submarine.

Meanwhile, rescuers sent more ships and vessels to the region where Titan vanished on Wednesday (local time), hoping that the underwater sounds they had heard for the second straight day would help focus their search in an increasingly critical effort.