The wife of the founder and CEO of OceanGate, who is on board the missing Titanic tourist submersible, is the great-great-grandfather of Isidor Straus, the co-founder of Macy's with his brother who died alongside his wife Ida on board the Titanic that was depicted in James Cameron's 1997 film, lying on their bed in their first-class cabin as the water rises around the elderly couple.
“The wife of the CEO of the missing Titanic tourist submarine is descended from a wealthy New York couple who drowned on the Titanic in 1912.
Wendy Rush is married to Stockton Rush, one of the five men trapped in Titan after it vanished on Sunday during a trip to visit the historic wreckage.
Her great-great-grandparents, Isidor and Ida Straus, died in the historic disaster - with Isidor being a co-founder of the Macy's department store.
They were also immortalized in James Cameron's 1997 movie 'Titanic', where they are shown in an iconic scene, fictionally embracing on their bed as water rushed onto the ship.
The revelation comes as crews continued to search a remote area of the Atlantic ocean for the missing sub containing her husband, a French explorer, an English billionaire, a Pakistani billionaire and his son.
Wendy Rush, born Wendy Hollings Weil, married engineer and entrepreneur Stockton Rush in 1986. She is descended from Isidor and Ida Straus's daughter Minnie, who married Dr. Richard Weil in 1905.
Their son, Richard Weil Jr., later served as president of Macy's New York, and his son, Dr. Richard Weil III, is Wendy Rush's father, the New York Times reported.
Isidor and Ida were two of the wealthiest people onboard the Titanic when it sank to the bottom of the ocean during its maiden voyage - from Southampton, England to New York City - after striking an iceberg”. -Harriet Alexander, Daily Mail
As it happens, John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Macy’s Isidor Straus were three American millionaires who were said to have all deeply objected to the creation of a U.S. Federal Reserve Bank.
All three opponents were aboard the British luxury passenger liner, and all three went down with the ship and soon later the Federal Reserve came into existence, forever altering the world financial system.
Now, precisely one hundred and eleven years, two months, and three days later, the Titanic Tourist Submarine has sunk, perhaps as a metaphoric declaration of the birth of a new international economic order.