Dr Joseph Dituri, a university professor who spent 100 days living underwater at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers, resurfaces and raises his face to the Sun for the first time since March 1
Dituri plans to present findings from Project Neptune 100 at November’s World Extreme Medicine Conference in Scotland. / Photo: AP
The diving explorer and medical researcher shattered the previous mark of 73 days, two hours and 34 minutes set by two Tennessee professors at the same lodge in 2014. Guinness World Records listed Dituri as the record holder on its website after his 74th day underwater last month. The project aimed to learn more about how the human body and mind respond to extended exposure to extreme pressure and an isolated environment and was designed to benefit ocean researchers and astronauts on future long-term missions.
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