 He was a longtime member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) which became organized in 1893 in the state of New Jersey.In 1895, Busch moved to Elizabethport, New Jersey, where he was the shipyard superintendent at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard
This shipyard is where the United States Navy's first submarines were built under Busch's supervision beginning in the late fall of 1896.Busch worked in unison with John Philip Holland to design and build the pioneering , also known as the "Holland VI" design.