Stockton Rush and the four passengers on the submersible he piloted to the Titanic wreck died after the vessel imploded. The founder of OceanGate Expeditions had declared the submersible safe, despite its rule-defying construction. “At some point, you’re going to take a chance, and it’s really a risk-reward thing,” Stockton said in CBS News Sunday Morning. “I think I can just as safely do this by breaking the rules.”
Stockton Rush’s son, Richard, is a pilot in Washington, and his daughter, Quincy, is a paralegal in California.
Stockton Rush and his wife, Wendy, shared two children, Richard ‘Ben’ and Quincy, who are featured on Wendy’s Facebook page.
Richard, like his father, mother, grandfather, and great-grandfather, attended Princeton University. By The Princeton JournalRichard graduated in 2011 and built a robotic arm for submersible vehicles for his thesis.
“I love creating things,” Richard writes on his website, the Ben Rush Blog. “Pottery in my spare time, underwater robots early in my career, and now adventures with the amazing team at PSL.” Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) is a Seattle-based company that creates and launches technology startups.
The Daily Mail reports that Richard works as a pilot in Washington. The outlet reports that Richard inherited his father’s enthusiasm for deep sea expeditions and has posted photos on social media of himself investigating underwater shipwrecks.
Ben’s younger sister, Quincy, is a law clerk at the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Quincy earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2020, according to his LinkedIn page.
The family is no stranger to tragedy at sea. The New York Times reports that Quincy and Ben’s maternal ancestors, Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, were among the people who died when the Titanic sank in 1912.
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