James Cameron Is Racing a British Billionaire to the Deepest Point on the ...
22.05.12
. And Captain Walsh himself believes the movie man may have it in him: "Jim is a remarkable guy who's never trained as an engineer but has an intuitive grasp of engineering details that far surpasses a lot of the professionals I've known," the now 80-year-old legend tells the paper.
But Cameron isn't the only ego scrambling for the title.
Sir Richard Branson, who owns the Virgin empire, has been trying to design the perfect submersible to take on Challenger Deep since April. The same British billionaire behind those ridiculous novelty trips into space on the Virgin Galactic is now making the finishing touches on his Virgin Oceanic . In Newport Beach, no less.
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