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From the trailblazer with an eye on history to 'Mr Titanic', these explorers had incredible stories that earned the respect of people around them

The 24-year-old singer, real name Mikaela Mullaney Straus, is the great-great-granddaughter of Macys co-owner Isidor and Ida Straus who had been aboard the Titanic when it perished.

Wendy Rush is the great-great-grandaughter of Ida and Isior Straus, two of the wealthiest people to die in the Titanic disaster.

Wendy Rush is the wife of Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate. He is among the five people on board the missing Titanic tourist sub. Her great-great-grandparents died in the 1912 disaster.

Wendy Rush is the great-great-granddaughter of Titanic victims Isidor and Ida Straus, the New York Times reported. Isidor was a co-founder of Macy's.

Wendy Rush, who is the Director of Communications and Expedition Team Member at OceanGate Expeditions, is the great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus

Even as the search operations for the missing submersible Titan is one, it has come to light that one among the five passengers aboard the vessel is descended from a New York couple who drowned in the Titanic disaster in 1912.

Stockton Rushs wife Wendy is related to a couple made famous for going down in the Titanic cuddled in bed together in James Camerons 1997 film.

Explained: Wife of Stockton Rush, Wendy is the great-great granddaughter of an elderly couple who died on the Titanic, and whose story was also depicted in James Cameron's film

The last time the couple was seen on the Titanic, Ida Straus told her husband "Where you go, I go," and they were holding hands on deck before a wave took them out to sea.