Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – A college professor in Florida, United States has damaged a world file for residing underwater for a very long time. As of Saturday (13/5/2023), the person named Joseph Dituri had spent 74 days residing in an underwater lodge situated on the backside of a 30-foot-deep lagoon in Key Largo Florida.
To cite Reuters, Dituri plans to proceed to stay underwater for 100 days. The professor of biomedical engineering on the College of South Florida shared his story of breaking a world file.
“As we speak I broke the world file for residing underwater. Curiosity for brand spanking new discoveries has introduced me right here,” Dituri stated in a tweet.
The earlier file for the longest time spent underwater was held by two Tennessee professors, Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain. They lived in the identical lodge as Dituri for 73 days in 2014, in line with the Related Press.
The lodge was initially constructed as an underwater marine analysis laboratory, earlier than being transformed right into a lodge in 1986, in line with Florida Keys Information.
Dituri, who can be a diver and medical researcher, needed to check how the human physique reacts to staying underwater beneath excessive stress for lengthy intervals of time.
“My purpose from day one has been to encourage generations to come back, interview scientists who examine life beneath the ocean and examine how the human physique capabilities in excessive environments,” Dituri wrote in a tweet on Sunday.
He spent 74 days underwater consuming protein-rich eggs and salmon, exercising and educating greater than 2,500 college students in on-line lessons on marine science and biomedical engineering.
He additionally tweets about his underwater expertise, together with a video of how he works out within the water.
Though Dituri plans to proceed residing underwater for 100 days, he admits he misses one factor.
“The factor I miss essentially the most after I’m on the floor is the solar,” he stated.
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