Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Adventurers Exploring the Ocean


One of them owns a twin-engine airplane and a helicopter. The other? A fleet of spaceships.

Richard Branson, the billionaire adventurer, and Newport Beach real estate investor Chris Welsh unveiled a one-person submarine Tuesday that they said will be used to explore the deepest reaches of the world's oceans.

The pair said they will begin later this year with the Mariana Trench, a 36,000-foot-deep valley that has not been visited by mankind since 1960, when a bulky, two-man submarine operated by the U.S. Navy made the voyage.

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