Richard Branson prepares for mission to the deep

“I have been over Everest in a balloon, and that was awesome, but he went down
one and a half times further than Everest is deep.

“I was never planning to do the Pacific dive, I have always planned to do the
Atlantic,” he said, adding that Cameron was a “good friend” that he hoped to
cooperate with on future dives.

After his dive, Mr Cameron said he doubted that such barren waters as he
experienced could sustain many life forms, but Sir Richard said any large
creatures at the bottom of the ocean would have been scared off by Mr
Cameron’s large vessel.

“You suddenly see this big mission coming down with massive lights, anything
big would move a mile away,” he added.

“On such a short trip you really can’t explore and move around a lot. We know
there are gigantic things down there. I think that is where the two subs
working together would be good. Ours is battery-powered, so very quiet. We
could work out a way to identify a creature, then call the other sub to film
it.”

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