Wife of pilot in fatal sub implosion descended from couple who died on Titanic, report says

The wife of the man who was piloting the submersible when it imploded during this week’s dive to the the Titanic wreckage site is a descendant of a couple who died when the ocean liner sank in 1912. The New York Times reports in a story Thursday that its archival records show Wendy Rush, the wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus. Straus was a retailing magnate who co-owned Macy’s department store. Born Wendy Hollings Weil, Wendy Rush wed Stockton Rush in 1986. Officials have said Thursday that Stockton Rush and four other men died in the implosion.