Stockton Rush in 2013. Rush, who is 61, said he believes deeply that the sea, rather than the sky, offers humanity the best shot at survival when the Earth's surface becomes uninhabitable.

Stockton Rush “didn’t want anyone telling him what he couldn’t do,” according to Brian Weed, a cameraman who had worked with him. The CEO of the underwater expedition company OceanGate ...

Titan submersible mastermind Stockton Rush knew his risky venture would end in disaster — but carried on anyway because that meant he’d never have to face accountability, according to one of ...

A new Netflix documentary explores the doomed Titan submersible that captivated the public in 2023. The film zeroes in on OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, whose arrogant ambition ultimately led to the ...

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was on a “predatory” hunt looking for wealthy clientele to support his costly deep-sea submersible trips to the Titanic, according to an industry expert.

Stockton Rush was among the five passengers who died in the Titan submersible on June 18. John Lundin, a friend of Rush, said Rush was the local version of Elon Musk.

Stockton Rush spoke to The New York Times last year defending his expensive Titanic dives and the rich passengers who paid him. The OceanGate CEO said "profit" is the only way things get done.

Karl Stanley, a friend of OceanGate co-founder Stockton Rush, testified that Rush knew that the voyage to the ruins of the Titanic could end in failure. Appearing before the U.S. Coast Guard on ...

Stockton’s wife, Wendy Rush, descends from a couple who died when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in 1912, according to The New York Times. Wendy’s relatives are Isidor Straus and Ida Straus.

Stockton Rush's wife Wendy Rush is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who allegedly refused to leave the sinking ship until all women and children were on lifeboats.

Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate and one of five people on the submersible missing in the North Atlantic, has cultivated a reputation as a kind of modern-day Jacques Cousteau — a nature lover ...