Virgin Oceanic will offer scuba diving trips

Reported to be an ambitious businessman Richard Branson just presented Virgin Oceanic product, approximately six meters long, winged, aircraft-like single-seater submarine designed to land in the next two years to the five deepest points in the world's ocean - the Puerto Rico Deep (8605 meters) and the South Sandwich Deep (8428 meters) in the Atlantic Ocean in the ocean (11 034 m), the bottom of Diamantina in the Indian Ocean (8047 m) and the 5606 m deep point in the bottom of Molloja in the Arctic Ocean.

Commercial underwater trips to the depths of the ocean are possible

Branson's partner Chris Wells plans to land in the Mariana Trench this year, while Branson himself plans to explore the Puerto Rico trench. For the other three expeditions, submarine pilots have not yet been found, but Branson is optimistic, and MSNBC.com has said it could build a larger vessel in the future to take curious people to the depths of the ocean for a reasonable fee.

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Commercial underwater cruises in the depths of the ocean are possible

Underwater travel costs a lot of money

For now though underwater trips deep furrows will be used for research purposes. The scientists, working with Branson's team, hope that the Virgin Oceanic Expedition will eventually implement the idea of deploying stations in the depths of the ocean to collect water samples and microbes, and possibly even small living things. "We have 800 pounds (363 kilograms) of lunar rock samples, but not a gram of sand from the deepest part of the ocean," said Alex Tai, director of special projects at Virgin Group.

In support of new trends, data from underwater travel expeditions will also be uploaded to the virtual planet Google Earth.