Wendy Rush, the wife the executive who piloted the submersible that imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreckage, killing all on board, has another personal connection to the ship.Rush is the great-great granddaughter of retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, who were part of the group of more than 1500 people who died during the Titanic's maiden voyage, according to New York Times archive records.The couple were fictionalised by Lew Palter as Isidor and Elsa Raven as Ida in the Oscar-winning 1997 film Titanic, directed by James Cameron.
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