A college professor has damaged a world report after residing underwater with out depressurisation for 74 days.
However Joseph Dituri isn’t surfacing simply but, as he’s aiming to make it to triple figures.
Prof Dituri has been residing in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, which lies on the backside of a 30ft-deep lagoon in Key Largo, Florida within the US.
On his 74th day he ate a protein-heavy meal of eggs and salmon ready utilizing a microwave, exercised with resistance bands, did his every day push-ups and took an hour-long nap. A routine similar to his earlier 73 days.
Not like a submarine, the lodge doesn’t use know-how to regulate for the elevated underwater strain.
The earlier report of 73 days, two hours and 34 minutes was set by two Tennessee professors – Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain – on the identical location in 2014.
Prof Dituri’s mission, which has been dubbed Challenge Neptune 100, is about to finish on June 9 after he spends 100 days underwater.
It combines medical and ocean analysis together with instructional outreach and was organised by the Marine Assets Improvement Basis, proprietor of the habitat.
‘The report is a small bump and I actually admire it,’ stated Prof Dituri, a College of South Florida educator who holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering and is a former US naval officer.
‘I’m honoured to have it, however we nonetheless have extra science to do.’
His analysis contains every day experiments in physiology to observe how the human physique responds to long-term publicity to excessive strain.
‘The concept right here is to populate the world’s oceans, to deal with them by residing in them and actually treating them nicely,’ stated Prof Dituri, who additionally goes by the title Dr Deep Sea.
The outreach portion of Prof Dituri’s challenge contains operating on-line lessons and broadcast interviews from his digital studio within the underwater lodge.
Throughout the previous 74 days, he has reached greater than 2,500 college students by means of on-line lessons in marine science and extra together with his common biomedical engineering programs on the College of South Florida.
Whereas he says he loves residing below the ocean, there may be one factor he actually misses.
‘The factor that I miss essentially the most about being on the floor is actually the solar,’ Prof Dituri stated.
‘The solar has been a significant component in my life – I normally go to the fitness center at 5 after which I come again out and watch the dawn.’
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