There is an uncanny link between the CEO of the Titan submersible and a couple who died on the Titanic 112 years ago.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was one of the five people aboard the sub when it lost contact with its mothership in June 2023.
The group had been journeying down to the Titanic wreckage at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean when it tragically imploded.
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All of the passengers on the vessel, Rush, British explorer Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, lost their lives.
And a shocking link has since been uncovered between Rush and a couple who went down with the Titanic over a hundred years prior.
Isidor and Ida Strauss were famously last seen on the deck of the ship arm in arm as it sank after Ida had refused to board a lifeboat.
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She had declared: “I will not be separated from my husband. As we have lived, so we will die together.”
The couple became the inspiration for one particular scene in James Cameron’s film depiction of the Titanic disaster, where an older couple are seen holding hands as their room starts to flood.
And it’s since been uncovered that the great-granddaughter of the couple is Wendy Rush, who was married to the OceanGate CEO after tying the knot back in 1986.
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Wendy was the communications director of OceanGate and had actually been on three expeditions to the Titanic wreck herself.
According to the National Archives, Wendy’s great grandparents were originally from Germany and had been visiting their home country before making their way back to the US.
Ida’s maid, Ellen, was one of the survivors of the disaster and she recalled her final moments with the couple.
Ellen recounted how Ida had given her a floor-length mink coat, saying that she would have no further need for it.
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Years later, Ellen attempted to give the coat back to the family but they refused to take it.
Isidor and Ida have a mausoleum in New York where a cenotaph says: “Many waters cannot quench love - neither can floods drown it.”
Wendy’s husband Stockton suffered an eerily similar fate as the couple as he lost his life near the same spot.
A simulation details exactly what happened onboard when the sub failed and imploded as a result which many people have bizarrely described as being ‘comforting’.