According to reports gathered, 61-year-old founder and CEO of OceanGate Inc together with four other passengers have gone missing on an OceanGate tourist submersible disappeared during an expedition to explore the Titanic shipwreck.
The sub disappeared on Sunday, June 18, 2023, while diving to reach the Titanic shipwreck.
Being the CEO of a prestigious company like OceanGate CEO, one must definitely be very smart. Stockton Rush is said to have good brains and has been very well educated.
Where did OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush go to college and high school?
Stockton Rush is said to have attended a local high school, though there is no information regarding that.
Stockton Rush graduated from Princeton University in 1984 with BSE in Aerospace Engineering. He also went on further to gain an MBA from the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business in 1989.
Right after graduation, Stockton Rush decides to go in for his favorite thing which is his passion for engineering and aerospace. He then joined the McDonnell Douglas Corporation to further continue his dreams.
He became the youngest jet transport pilot at the age of 19 in 1981. He started his massive company OceanGate in 2009 which has become very successful over the years of its existence.
The man is indeed a genius, according to Heavy.com, Stockton Rush in 1989, “personally built a Glasair III experimental aircraft, which he still owns and flies.
He completed a heavily modified Kittredge K-350 two-man submersible, in which he has conducted over 30 dives to date”