Stockton Rush, the CEO and founder of OceanGate Expeditions, was aboard his company’s Titan submarine that disappeared on Sunday en route to the wreck of HMS Titanic around 370 miles east of the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
The US and Canadian Coast Guards are currently taking part in an attempted rescue mission to recover the craft, which takes fee-paying tourists and scientists 12,500 feet down into the depths of the Atlantic to see the disintegrating ruin of the famous luxury ocean liner, which struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City on 15 April 1912, subsequently splitting in two and sinking, killing all but 700 of the 2,200 guests and crew on board.
