Moving sub research and development into the private sector, Rush aimed to bring down the cost of deep-sea exploration and to make it more accessible to scientists and researchers. In 2009, he founded OceanGate, to conduct commercial research and exploration. He then built his own submersible (which he dived in over 30 times). When Rush recognized in his 40s that he would never achieve his dream of being the first person to walk on Mars, he told FastCompany in 2017, he turned his attention to the sea. In an uncanny coincidence, Wendy is the descendant of the married couple Isidor and Ida Straus, who died in the Titanic sinking in 1912. He married Wendy Rush, also a Princeton ’84 graduate, who works as communications director at OceanGate. Rush led several successful IP ventures over the subsequent decades and served on the board of multiple tech companies. He had become the world’s youngest jet-transport rated pilot at age 19, and went on to build his own Glasair III experimental aircraft in ’89-the same year he earned an MBA from U.C. Rush, 61, graduated from Princeton in 1984 with a degree in aerospace engineering. What We Know About Stockton Rush, OceanGate CEO Everything else is a distant second,” Rush told me. “I like to say that if you stopped someone on the street and said name three things in the deep ocean, they’re gonna say sharks, whales, and the Titanic. The Titanic rests 12,500 feet deep, so it took two-and-a-half hours for his sub just to reach the wreckage, Rush told me. While marine rescue is never simple, Titan’s depth complicated this mission even more. The French maritime expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet was also onboard, serving as the sub’s Titanic expert after more than 35 dives to the wreck.
Three adventurers were onboard with Rush: British businessman and explorer Hamish Harding, and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman. ET on June 22, Coast Guard officials announced that a “catastrophic implosion,” which instantly killed all the passengers, occurred in the submersible, and offered “heartfelt condolences.” Debris from the submersible was found on a smooth section of sea floor 1,600 feet off the bow of the Titanic by a remotely operated vehicle searching the site. A fervent search-and-rescue mission ensued across an area about 900 miles off the coast of Cape Cod-in a region often referred to as twice the size of Connecticut-as the sub’s final hours of oxygen were believed to be dwindling. Rush and four others disappeared in the Titan on Sunday, June 18, during a dive to see the historic wreck of the Titanic. A picture of an OceanGate submersible cockpit served as his video-chat background, giving him the appearance of taking my calls from the helm of his fleet. The company is located in Everett, 25 miles north of Seattle.Įnergetic and passionate, Rush talked about the need to advance the world’s oceanic knowledge and why he was pursuing deep-sea tourism as a business. While researching an Outside story on high-end adventure tourism, I spoke twice by Zoom with Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, once in 2021 and again in 2022.
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