'Flying' submarine next tourism adventure

BILLIONAIRE adventurer Richard Branson has announced plans to offer tourists trips to the deepest parts of the ocean in a new submarine - for a hefty fee.

First he plans to travel in a solo craft himself to explore the ocean. Branson said that over the next two years, the solo craft will go to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic's Puerto Rico Trench and South Sandwich Trench, the Diamantina Trench in the Indian Ocean and the Molloy Deep in the Arctic Ocean.