Stockton Rush (1962-2023) was an American engineer, pilot, and businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of OceanGate Inc. He made headlines for the 2023 Titan submersible incident, a tourist expedition in which the Titan submersible carrying five passengers, including Titan co-pilot Stockton Rush, disappeared in the North Atlantic in 2023 The ocean on the way to view the wreckage of the Titanic on June 18. He was pronounced dead in June 2023 at the age of 61.
Wiki/Biography
Richard Stockton Rush III was born on Saturday, March 31, 1962 in San Francisco, California (age 61 in 2023). His zodiac sign is Aries. When he was a child, he wanted to be an astronaut. In 1980, at the age of 18, he obtained his commercial pilot’s license. He graduated from Phillips Exeter College in Exeter, USA, in the 1980s. He wanted to become a military pilot; however, he was unable to do this due to his vision problems. He later moved from San Francisco to Seattle to join American aerospace manufacturing company McDonnell Douglas as a flight test engineer for the F-15 Eagle jet. At age 19, he earned his DC-8/Captain rating at the United Airlines Jet Training Academy. In 1984, he graduated from Princeton University in New Jersey with a degree in aerospace engineering. In 1989, he received his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Stockton Rush as a Young Man
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′11″
Hair color: gray
Eye color: hazel
family
He came from a wealthy family in San Francisco. His maternal grandfather, Ralph K. Davies, was an American businessman and political appointee. His maternal grandmother, Louise M. Davies, was a philanthropist for whom San Francisco’s Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall is named. Stockton Rush is a descendant of Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton, two outstanding figures from the founding of the United States. Benjamin and Richard played important roles in the American Revolution and are known as the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Parents and siblings
His father, Richard Stockton Rush Jr., is chairman of Peregrine Oil and Gas Co. in Burlingame, Calif., and Natomas Co. in San Francisco. His mother’s name was Ellen Rush. Stockton Rush III has four older siblings. The two sisters were named Deborah and Catherine. On December 31, 1999, his father passed away due to a brief illness.
wife and children
In 1986, Stockton married Wendy Weil, director of communications for OceanGate and a licensed pilot.
Stockton Rush and Wendy Weir
According to archival records, Wendy is a descendant of two first-class passengers who tragically died when the Titanic sank in 1912. She was the great-great-granddaughter of American businessmen and politicians Isidore and Ida Strauss, and a housewife. Isidore and Ada were the two wealthiest passengers on the Titanic.
Isidore Strauss and Ida Strauss (right) played roles in the Hollywood film “Titanic” (left)
Stockton Rush is survived by two children. A girl and a boy.
stockton rush children
Profession
engineer
Rush built a submersible in 2006, buying parts from a private company and using blueprints provided by a retired U.S. Navy submarine commander. He wanted to explore the waters of Puget Sound, the mouth of the Pacific Ocean, while training to scuba dive. The submersible he built was 12 feet long and could dive to a depth of 30 feet.
merchant
He served as a director of BlueView Technologies in Washington. In 2009, he co-founded OceanGate Inc. in Washington with business partner Guillermo Söhnlein after experiencing a demand for underwater ocean tourism.
Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein
Stockton said OceanGate’s goal is to use commercial tourism to fund the development of bathyscaphes. These submersibles will enable a variety of commercial activities, such as resource extraction and disaster mitigation. In 2018, he led a team of scientists and researchers on an expedition to the San Juan Islands to get a closer look at sea urchins and to examine whether the habitat of the sand lance was changing. As of 2021, underwater charter expeditions cost approximately $250,000 per person. In 2022, Rush and four others; banker Renata Rojas, businessman Oisin Fanning, television professional Jaden Pan and oceanographer Shi Steve Ross embarks on a journey to explore the wreckage of the Titanic; however, they encounter technical difficulties related to the pilot’s controls, which complicates their exploration of the debris.
An OceanGate vessel takes tourists from St. John’s, Newfoundland to the Titanic site
die
He died on June 22, 2023, after the Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic. On June 18, 2023, the Titan submersible disappeared in the North Atlantic about 400 nautical miles (740 kilometers) off the coast of Newfoundland. The submersible carried a group of tourists, including businessman and explorer Hamish Harding, deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, businessman Shahzada Shahzada Dawood, Shahzada’s son Suleman Dawood and Ocean Gate founder Stockton Rush, among others. They were on an expedition and witnessed the wreckage of the Titanic. After the Titan disappeared, the U.S. military helped search for the submersible. On June 22, 2023, Titan was reported to have imploded, likely during descent, resulting in the instant death of five people on board.
Images of OceanGate’s submersible Titan
Facts/Trivia
- Stockton Rush is an adrenaline junkie who loves adventure. In an interview, talking about his love of adventure, he said:
I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed, don’t get in the car, don’t do anything. At some point, you’re going to take on some risk, and it’s really a risk-reward question. I figured I could do this safely by breaking the rules. ”
- In 2012, he founded the OceanGate Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting technological advancement in the fields of marine science, history and archeology. The Foundation aims to support and promote research and exploration in these areas.
- In a 2017 interview, he said he wanted to be the first person to land on Mars.
- In an interview, while talking about using bathyscaphes for underwater ocean tourism, he shared that traveling on a Titan submersible gave him the adventure he wanted. He said,
It was truly a life-changing experience, and there aren’t many like it. Instead of spending $65,000 to climb Everest, possibly die, and then live in a miserable base camp for a month, change your life in one week. I want to be Captain Kirk. I don’t want to be a rear passenger. I realized that the ocean is the universe. This is where life is. ”
Stockton Rush and the Titan Submersible
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