{"id":269022,"date":"2010-02-02T18:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21385"},"modified":"2010-02-02T18:30:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:30:53","slug":"virgin%e2%80%99s-branson-launches-underwater-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269022","title":{"rendered":"Virgin\u2019s Branson Launches Underwater Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/02\/01\/technology\/richard_branson_underwater_plane\/index.htm?hpt=Mid\">CNN Money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virgin unveiled the latest addition to Richard Branson&#8217;s luxury fleet on Friday: an underwater plane that will fly riders into the depths of the Caribbean Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Guests on Necker Island, a retreat in the British Virgin Islands, will be able to dive underwater in a submarine dubbed the Necker Nymph for $25,000 a week. But that&#8217;s only after shelling out around $300,000 for a one-week stay on Necker, the private island owned by billionaire and Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning on Feb. 20, two riders and a pilot will be able to take the plunge from land, or from a boat. The underwater plane uses the downward pressure on its wings to fly through the water for up to two hours at a time, while an open cockpit will give riders a 360-degree view&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN Money: Virgin unveiled the latest addition to Richard Branson&#8217;s luxury fleet on Friday: an underwater plane that will fly riders into the depths of the Caribbean Sea. Guests on Necker Island, a retreat in the British Virgin Islands, will be able to dive underwater in a submarine dubbed the Necker Nymph for $25,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}