As the search for the OceanGate Expeditions' Titanic-bound submersible has reached its tragic end, another chilling discovery about the company's CEO has heightened the disconcertment of the grieving public. | via philstarlife
As the search for the OceanGate Expeditions' Titanic-bound submersible has reached its tragic end, another chilling discovery about the company's CEO has heightened the disconcertment of the grieving public.
, Rush's wife Wendy is the great-great-granddaughter of a wealthy New York-based couple who died in the sinking of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912. They were the elderly couple immortalized by James Cameron in a heart-rending scene in his 1997 blockbuster film about the disaster.The New York Times traced the ancestry of Rush's wife and found that her great-great-grandparents are Isidor and Ida Straus.
Wendy's link to the couple, which The New York Times discovered through archival record, was confirmed to be true by the executive director of the Straus Historical Society toAccording to the organization, Dr. Richard Weil III is the father of Wendy. He is the son of Richard Weil Jr. who, in turn, is the son of one of the Strauses’ daughters, Minnie.A love that no water can ever drown
The couple was among the wealthiest passengers aboard Titanic's first voyage, which reached its painful end when it hit an iceberg and started sinking at around 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912.
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