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Inside the Life of Stockton Rush, the Titan Sub CEO
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate who died aboard the Titan submersible along with four others when it imploded in the North Atlantic Ocean in June 2023, was shaped by legacy, ambition, and controversy. A descendant of Founding Fathers and married into a family tied to the Titanic, he founded OceanGate to open access to deep sea tourism. But as Netflix's new documentary, Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, reveals, his resistance to oversight and confidence in his own vision helped set the stage for a fatal outcome. Here's a closer look at Rush's background, from his elite upbringing and engineering career to the decisions that led to the Titan's final dive. Rush was descended from two signers of the Declaration of Independence—Richard Stockton and Benjamin Rush—on his father's side, for whom he was named. Wendy Rush, Stockton Rush's wife, is the great-great-granddaughter of Ida and Isidor Straus, first-class passengers who died in the Titanic sinking in 1912. Wendy, born Wendy Hollings Weil, descended from the couple known for their refusal to be separated as the ship went down. The Strauses were later memorialized in James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic, and a cenotaph in the Bronx bears a biblical inscription honoring their story. Rush was born on March 31, 1962 in San Francisco. Rush's father chaired Peregrine Oil and Gas in Burlingame, California, a suburb south of the city, and the Natoma Company, which managed real estate investments in the Sacramento area. His grandfather led American President Lines, a major shipping firm, and his grandmother was the namesake of Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco's Civic Center. The family's fortune originated with Ralph K. Davies, who rose from office boy to director at Standard Oil of California. Rush's father also served as president-elect of the Bohemian Club, an exclusive, all-male organization based in San Francisco known for its annual retreat at Bohemian Grove, a 2,700-acre campground about 80 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The secret society's member rolls are notoriously private, but this was lightly referenced in Discovery's Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster documentary and also confirmed in Princeton alumni records. After college, Rush returned to the Bay Area, where he received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. Rush earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton in 1984. His father, grandfather, and wife also attended. Their son graduated as recently as 2011. Per the Princeton Alumni Weekly, his namesake, Richard Stockton—Class of 1748 and signer of the Declaration—was one of the school's earliest graduates, and Richard's father donated land to the university. As a student, Rush trained as a pilot and kept a private plane at the Princeton airport. He took off semesters to fly DC-8s in Saudi Arabia during the hajj pilgrimage. According to the Daily Princetonian in 2023, he was arrested during his time in college, including for drunk driving and for possession of a controlled substance. Rush originally dreamed of becoming an astronaut, but that dream was cut short when he couldn't pass the right vision tests. So he switched to engineering, with the goal of being a passenger, and began his career as a flight test engineer at McDonnell Douglas in Seattle. 'I had this epiphany that this was not at all what I wanted to do,' Rush told Smithsonian Magazine in 2019. 'I didn't want to go up into space as a tourist. I wanted to be Captain Kirk on the Enterprise. I wanted to explore.' In the Netflix documentary, it's made clear that Rush wants to be mentioned in the same conversations as the likes of Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin and Elon Musk and SpaceX, so he made deep sea exploration his frontier. He founded OceanGate in 2009. While he held an aerospace engineering degree, he was not a licensed professional engineer—an omission some experts later questioned given his involvement in designing and piloting submersibles. You Might Also Like 12 Weekend Getaway Spas For Every Type of Occasion 13 Beauty Tools to Up Your At-Home Facial Game
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2 hours ago
- USA Today
'No Kings' organizers say Philadelphia set to be largest June 14 protest. Why?
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18 hours ago
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MedX Announces the Engagement of Market Maker Consultant
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, June 12, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MedX Health Corp. ("MedX" or the "Company") (TSX-V: MDX) announces today the engagement of Red Cloud Securities Inc. ("Red Cloud") to provide market making services to the Company. Pursuant to the agreement between Red Cloud and MedX, Red Cloud will be paid a monthly flat fee of $5,000, payable in advance in cash for the period of June 15, 2025 to September 15, 2025, and continuing thereafter on a monthly basis. Either party may terminate the agreement with not less than thirty-days' notice to the other party. As part of the services to be rendered to the Company, Red Cloud undertakes to use its best efforts to (i) maintain a reasonable and consistent bid and offer spread for the Company's common stock, (ii) maintain a reasonable board lot size for the bid and the offer of the Company's common stock on the TSX Venture Exchange, and (iii) supply liquidity using its own cash in hand. The services will mainly be rendered by Mr. Adam Smith who is acting at arm's length to the Company. As of the date of this announcement, Red Cloud, together with Mr. Adam Smith, own securities of the Company in the form of common shares. The engagement of Red Cloud remains subject to the acceptance of the TSX Venture Exchange. About MedX Health Corp.: MedX, headquartered in Ontario, Canada, is a leading medical device and software company focused on skin health with its SIAscopy® on DermSecure® telemedicine platform, utilizing its SIAscopy® technology. SIAscopy® is also imbedded in its products SIAMETRICS®, SIMSYS®, and MoleMate®, which MedX manufactures in its ISO 13485 certified facility. SIAMETRICS®, SIMSYS®, and MoleMate® include hand-held devices that use patented technology utilizing light and its remittance to view up to 2 mm beneath suspicious moles and lesions in a pain free, non-invasive manner, with its software then creating real-time images for physicians and dermatologists to evaluate all types of moles or lesions within seconds. These products are cleared by Health Canada, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Therapeutic Goods Administration and Conformité Européenne for use in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, the European Union and Turkey. Visit About Red Cloud Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Red Cloud is registered as an Investment Dealer in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia and is a member of the Investment Industry Organization of Canada (IIROC). It is focused on providing unique comprehensive capital market services and innovative financing alternatives to the junior resource sector. Red Cloud was founded by capital markets professionals who designed the firm to service public and private companies. This solution is a comprehensive platform that provides a full range of unconflicted corporate access services. Offering these services as a unified platform provides the ultimate value proposition for issuer clients. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This Media Release may contain forward-looking statements, which reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. View source version on Contacts MedX Health Druhan, President, Dermatological (+1) 905-599-7852 Sign in to access your portfolio
