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Virgin Oceanic sub so sexy it will be called “Scarlett”

By rokurFebruary 29, 2012Updated:February 29, 20121 Comment1 Min Read

Nice touch, millionaire adventurer Chris Welsh wants to name his Virgin Oceanic sub “Scarlett” after Scarlett Johansson, because that’s how sexy this vehicle is. Welsh plans to pilot the experimental, cutting-edge sub to the bottom of the Mariana Trench sometime this year, in what would be only the second descent to the deepest spot in the world’s oceans, since Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard went down there in the bathyscaphe Trieste back in 1960.

Read more here on Slashdot.

(Photo of Scarlett Johansson courtesy of John McNab, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, posted here purely for comparison purposes)

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rokur

Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)

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