The wife of the missing submarine driver is the next of kin of the Titanic’s known victims house

Stockton Rush owns the submarine company OceanGate. His wife, Wendy, is the director of communications there and has actually flown the submarine Titan to the Titanic wreck three times before, according to information on her LinkedIn page. The Sunday mission was also on its way to the famous ship. But communication was lost more than an hour later, and since then the lives of Stockton and her four other passengers have been feared. If it can’t be found before Thursday noon, there’s a good chance the cabin will run out of oxygen.

Almost in the same place in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Canada, on a cold April night in 1912, a total of 1,522 people died on board the Titanic. Also among them is elderly couple Isidore and Ida Strauss, who are the great-great-grandparents of Wendy Rush, as it now appears.

They were two of the richest people on board the Titanic, which sank after hitting an iceberg on its way from Britain to New York. The survivors of the shipwreck later told the couple’s sad and romantic story. Isidor Straus — co-founder of Macy’s flagship American department store — refused a place in a lifeboat because women and children were still waiting for rescue, he wrote. The New York Times. Then Ida refused to leave her husband alone. “No, I don’t want to be separated from my husband. We lived together and died together,” said one survivor.

Due to his advanced age, Isidore was offered a place in the lifeboat, but he refused. Eyewitness Archibald Gracie later said, “I don’t want to be discriminated against in my favour, because other people don’t understand that either.” They then help another maid into a schooner and are last seen standing arm in arm on the upper deck as the ship sinks.

This image inspired the makers of the movie Titanic From 1997 for a short but touching scene. When water pours into the passenger cabin, an elderly couple on the bed cling tightly to each other. They know that they will not survive the disaster. Both Isidore and Ida Strauss are dead. His body was pulled out of the water more than two weeks later, along with 204 others. Nothing was found for her.

Although Wendy Rush only knows her distant ancestors from stories, it is likely that she is going through the same thing that thousands of relatives did at the time. The chances of her husband and the submarine’s four other passengers being found alive diminish with time. Wendy herself has not yet responded to the loss of her husband.

Father and son family Shahzadeh and Suleiman Dawood He told me on Wednesday Sky News I was very impressed with the global support. They are fully involved in the rescue effort, and hope that people will respect their privacy. Other relatives of the missing passengers have yet to speak publicly about the incident.

Fellow Lost Stockton Rush has spoken in the past about the dangers of his submarine missions. He was not afraid of underwater. But he was worried about things that could get caught on the submarine, such as fishing nets. “If you see something hanging, don’t sail under it. If there is a net, stay away.”

But he put the stakes into perspective. He said, “If you only want safety, don’t get out of bed.” “Don’t get in your car. Don’t do anything anymore. At some point you’re going to take a risk. And you have to weigh those risks against the benefits.”

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