Richard Branson Has Plans Deep Sea Submarine

Richard Branson Has Plans Deep Sea Submarine: Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, famous for such holdings, trying to balloon around the world, said Tuesday that it plans to explore the deepest parts of oceans with a submarine that regional jets.

Of 18 feet (5-1/2 meters) vessel capable of bills of more than 36,000 feet (11,000 m) below the surface, "said Branson at a press conference in Newport Beach, California.

His project, called Oceanic Virgin, doing five dives over two years. The first is expected by the end of the year, when the team plans to explore the Pacific Ocean, is located near the Mariana Trench at a depth of 36,000 feet.

Branson plans to test a second dive yourself into the pit of Puerto Rico in the Atlantic.

Other areas to explore is Molloy bottom of the Arctic Ocean, South Sandwich Trench in the Southern Ocean and Indian Ocean Diamantina.

"There are so many things to explore, so much to discover," said Branson. "Clearly, met fascinating creatures and learn fascinating things that we hope will be useful to humanity."

Branson said he expects the project to cost less than $ 10 million.

Branson said Virgin might one day scuba diving Oceanic passengers, such as his proposed Virgin Galactic may one day be rich passengers into suborbital space flights.

Branson launched the Virgin chain of music stores in the 1970's, and commercial operations have expanded to include a record of Music and Virgin Atlantic Airlines VA.UL.

He used his wealth to finance these efforts to try to get around the ball and set the world record for sailing.

Last month, it was a suborbital spaceship that is owned by Branson's Virgin Galactic is attached to an aircraft carrier in a flight of three hours on the Mojave Desert in California.

It is designed for test flights by 2011 and commercial operations in 2012.

The company has collected deposits and rates of over 330 aspiring amateur astronauts, each will be charged $ 200,000 to experience suborbital space flights.