Who was Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate, who died in the Titan submersible catastrophe?
Mr Rush has been thrust in the spotlight since the disaster by the emergence of a raft of claims made by former passengers and industry observers about safety concerns with theOne colleague was fired before the implosion that he was from the company after he mentioned his fears for the sub.
Five people died in the catastrophe, with the wreckage of the sub discovered after a huge search and rescue operation.OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush died in a catastrophic implosion on the Titan sub in June.Stockton Rush was CEO and founder of OceanGate, which operated the Titan. He was born into a wealthy family in San Francisco, in 1962. His family are descended from two of the US Founding Fathers, Richard Stockton and Benjamin Rush, according to a local newspaper.
His maternal grandfather was Philip K. Davies, a hugely rich San Francisco shipping magnate. Mr Rush trained as a pilot and became the youngest jet transport rated pilot in the world at the age of 19. But he was unable to realise his dream of becoming an astronaut, because of relatively poor eyesight.
Mr Rush studied aerospace engineering at Princeton University, and graduated with an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.
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