Reply To: Is there a greater meaning to the Titan accident?

This is a good example of what David Luke termed ‘Randomania’.
What you believe to be a coincidence is in actuality the cause of the connection itself.
What likely actually happened is the following: Wendy Rush was obsessed in the first place with the Titanic precisely because her great-grandparents had died on it; she gets involved in research regarding the Titanic (she’s the director of communications of OceanGate after all!); through her familial interest in the Titanic she meets Stockton Rush, who has had a shared obsession with aviation and aquatics since he was a child, as well as deep sea exploration for a long time (sure enough, the two of them were licensed pilots as teenagers before meeting each other); their shared obsession with the Titanic eventually leads to them creating a company which does dangerous exploration to the Titanic’s wreckage, leading to the tragedy that occurs.
In other words, it’s not a coincidence that Strauss’ descendant’s husband died in a tragedy related to the Titanic; rather, it’s because she was Strauss’ descendant that she had a husband who died in a tragedy related to the Titanic.