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The of the Virgin group Richard Branson has his latest adventure project. He plans to explore the deepest parts of the ocean in a high-tech submarine. Virgin Oceanic will five test dives over two years. His team plans to the deepest part of any ocean – the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. At a of almost 11,000 metres, the trench is deeper than Mount Everest is . Branson showed the specially-built to reporters at a news conference in California. He to pilot one of the dives himself. Branson also said he hoped Virgin Oceanic would one day take passengers on deep sea to explore the ocean depths.

Branson is a entrepreneur. He started off by selling used music at university, which led to his opening of the Virgin Records stores. He has become well known for pushing things to the . He has used his wealth to such feats as hot-air-ballooning around the world and has set sailing records. As well as his Virgin airline company, he also Virgin Galactic, which will tourists to fly into space. He told reporters: "There is just so much to explore, so much to . We are going to obviously across some fascinating creatures and learn some fascinating things that will hopefully be useful for ."