After Space, Richard Branson Shutter Seabed

Posted by Admin Sunday, April 10, 2011 0 comments
Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has made a submarine project named Virgin Oceanic researchers aimed to explore the deep sea. Virgin Oceanic submarines have an operating system that can work at depths of 37 thousand feet. The submarine can carry only one person. Speed ​​maximum of 3 knots and can dive to 350 feet per minute.

Virgin Oceanic team will be able to start the journey for two years in exploring the five deepest oceans of the world. “The first dive into the deepest place on earth, the basis of the Mariana Trench, deep as 11 kilometers,” write the description on the site Virgin Oceanic.

Meanwhile, the next dive will target depth of the ocean in Puerto Rico Trench. To reach these areas Virgin Oceanic will be driven solely by Sir Richard Branson. The trench is the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean with a depth of more than 8 kilometers.

Although the basis of the Mariana Trench previously been seen by humans in an expedition in 1960 but with the development of today’s sophisticated technology, Virgin Oceanic will be able to explore the depths of more than 11 kilometers.Previously Richard Branson, known as the billionaire owner of Virgin Atlantic Airways also has an ambitious enterprise to make outer space as a tourist attraction. Through Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson will bring the millionaires in the world to enjoy a vacation in outer space through the plane and special hotel provided there.