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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 Rush's wife Wendy is related to a couple made famous for going down in the Titanic cuddled in bed together in James Cameron's 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.