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The wife of OceanGate's CEO is descended from a famous couple who died on the Titanic

Ida and Isidor Straus died after she gave up her spot in a lifeboat to stay with him on the sinking Titanic in 1912. Their great-great-granddaughter Wendy Rush is married to Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate and pilot of its missing submersible. (Getty Images)
Ida and Isidor Straus died after she gave up her spot in a lifeboat to stay with him on the sinking Titanic in 1912. Their great-great-granddaughter Wendy Rush is married to Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate and pilot of its missing submersible. (Getty Images)

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