Page 24 - Benjamin Rush News Today

No doubt members of the Church made their mark as our nation began.

WASHINGTON — Stockton Rush, 61, the late Titan submersible explorer, was an American character who stepped straight out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. I k

Instinct takes bourgeois journalism down tracks already laid a million times before. Paul Demarty contrasts the treatment given to two different maritime disasters

The moral calculations should not be this hard. And yet...

56 men put their lives on the line by signing the Declaration of Independence.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood, and Suleman Dawood were the five-man crew of the Titan submersible, which was believed to have imploded this week during its voyage.

Stockton Rush was also the descendant of prolific 18th-century writer Annis Stockton.

Wendy Rush is the wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, a descendant of a couple who died on the Titanic, and the Director of Communications for the subermersible company.

On board the submersible were the founder of the company that operates the vessel; a British businessman and explorer; a British father and teenage son from a prominent Pakistani family; and a French maritime expert.

A lifelong adventure seeker, Mr. Rush said he took on the risk of deepwater travel because the “ocean is the universe. That’s where life is.”