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Oceanic has entered the manned test phase with the first free, off-the-hook testing. For over 2 weeks, the Virgin Oceanic team tested and improved the launch and recovery and pulled together the details necessary for the first free dive. The first manned test by Chief Pilot Chris Welsh was brief; life support was good, and launch and recovery went well. In the water, he powered forward on the surface, but had small programming issues in the fly by wire programming; this was to be expected as the system needs fine tuning that can only be fully tested under load. In parallel to...