The wife of the missing Titanic submersible’s pilot is a descendant of passengers who died on the ocean liner when it sank in 1912.
Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions that is running the expedition, is the pilot of the vessel called Titan which set off around 6am on Sunday.
His wife Wendy Rush has great-great-grandparents who were on the Titanic and perished in the North Atlantic Ocean when it hit an iceberg.
