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Joan Didion would have known what to say about Richard Stockton Rush III. I’m almost surprised she never wrote about him. He was a pure effusion of California plutocracy, someone in whom amour-propre had been sublimed over generations, each forebear transforming a bit more of the dross of ordinari.
After his early astronaut dreams were cut short, Stockton Rush was determined to open up underwater exploration and saw his company as the “SpaceX for the ocean.”