KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A college professor broke a report for the longest time dwelling underwater with out depressurization this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers.
Joseph Dituri’s 74th day residing in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, located on the backside of a 30-foot-deep lagoon in Key Largo, wasn’t a lot completely different than his earlier days there since he submerged March 1.
Dituri, who additionally goes by the moniker “Dr. Deep Sea,” ate a protein-heavy meal of eggs and salmon ready utilizing a microwave, exercised with resistance bands, did his every day pushups and took an hourlong nap. Unlike a submarine, the lodge doesn’t use know-how to regulate for the elevated underwater stress.
The earlier report of 73 days, two hours and 34 minutes was set by two Tennessee professors — Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain — on the similar location in 2014.
But Dituri isn’t simply settling for the report and resurfacing: He plans to remain on the lodge till June 9, when he reaches 100 days and completes an underwater mission dubbed Project Neptune 100.
The mission combines medical and ocean analysis together with academic outreach and was organized by the Marine Resources Development Foundation, proprietor of the habitat.
“The record is a small bump and I really appreciate it,” mentioned Dituri, a University of South Florida educator who holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering and is a retired U.S. Naval officer. “I’m honored to have it, but we still have more science to do.”
His analysis consists of every day experiments in physiology to observe how the human physique responds to long-term publicity to excessive stress.
“The idea here is to populate the world’s oceans, to take care of them by living in them and really treating them well,” Dituri mentioned.
The outreach portion of Dituri’s mission consists of conducting on-line lessons and broadcast interviews from his digital studio beneath the ocean. During the previous 74 days, he has reached greater than 2,500 college students by on-line lessons in marine science and extra along with his common biomedical engineering programs on the University of South Florida.
While he says he loves dwelling below the ocean, there may be one factor he actually misses.
“The thing that I miss the most about being on the surface is literally the sun,” Dituri mentioned. “The sun has been a major factor in my life — I usually go to the gym at five and then I come back out and watch the sunrise.”
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