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17th May 2010, 02:50 PM
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story/Del-Mar-Man-Selling-Reservations-for-Doomsday/xdaLvudJnke22ThLHcIc-w.cspx
DEL MAR, Calif. - A salesman with a doomsday plan is taking money for what he promises will one day be a comfortable, nuke-proof bunker in the Mojave Desert.
Robert Vicino, who runs the Del Mar-based company Vivos, has already taken reservations for the bunker in Barstow. He says the 13,000-square-foot area will include an atrium, gym and jail on the inside and sloppy joes and pearl potatoes on the menu.
Experts say the demand for bunkers is growing because the strong earthquakes, terrorism and predictions of the world's end in 2012 when the ancient Mayan calendar ends.
About $50,000 will get you a spot in Vicino's facility. He says he has collected deposits on half the 132 spaces planned in the bunker and is still taking reservations: $5,000 for adults and $2,500 for kids. Pets are free.
Vivos says on its web site the bunker can protect people from nuclear war, bio war, a polar shift, solar flares, a global tsunami, a killer comet or a super volcano.
The company claims, "to help resist this form of catastrophe, the Vivos shelters are designed to withstand: Flooding submersion for 500 hours, extreme external fires at 1,250 F for 10 days, the effects of a magnetic pole shift, 450 MPH surface winds, 90 pound hail stones at a speed of 100 mph, force 10 earthquake in successions, 50 megaton air burst detonated 20 miles away."
The sales pitch includes doomsday predictions from various sources. There is also a countdown clock showing less than 950 days to the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012.
The company says the bunker will have enough food for one year.
DEL MAR, Calif. - A salesman with a doomsday plan is taking money for what he promises will one day be a comfortable, nuke-proof bunker in the Mojave Desert.
Robert Vicino, who runs the Del Mar-based company Vivos, has already taken reservations for the bunker in Barstow. He says the 13,000-square-foot area will include an atrium, gym and jail on the inside and sloppy joes and pearl potatoes on the menu.
Experts say the demand for bunkers is growing because the strong earthquakes, terrorism and predictions of the world's end in 2012 when the ancient Mayan calendar ends.
About $50,000 will get you a spot in Vicino's facility. He says he has collected deposits on half the 132 spaces planned in the bunker and is still taking reservations: $5,000 for adults and $2,500 for kids. Pets are free.
Vivos says on its web site the bunker can protect people from nuclear war, bio war, a polar shift, solar flares, a global tsunami, a killer comet or a super volcano.
The company claims, "to help resist this form of catastrophe, the Vivos shelters are designed to withstand: Flooding submersion for 500 hours, extreme external fires at 1,250 F for 10 days, the effects of a magnetic pole shift, 450 MPH surface winds, 90 pound hail stones at a speed of 100 mph, force 10 earthquake in successions, 50 megaton air burst detonated 20 miles away."
The sales pitch includes doomsday predictions from various sources. There is also a countdown clock showing less than 950 days to the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012.
The company says the bunker will have enough food for one year.