I made a post of someone being buried alive to break a record for the event,
you can read about it here, and now a new record has started, but this time living under water, the
current world record for time spent living underwater was set in 2014 by two
Tennessee biologists who managed to live submerged for a total of 73 days,
but if University of South Florida professor Joseph Dituri
meets his goal, he will beat that record by 27 days, at the beginning of this
month, Dituri, who also goes by the nickname ‘Dr. Deepsea’, moved into Jules’
Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, an underwater hotel 30 feet under the surface,
where he plans to remain until June 9th. “The human body has never been underwater that long, so I
will be monitored closely,” Prof. Dituri said in a statement. “This study will
examine every way this journey impacts my body, but my null hypothesis is that
there will be improvements to my health due to the increased pressure.”To keep water from entering the lodge, air must constantly
be pumped into the living space, which creates a pressure about 1.6 times that
of Earth’s surface, my SCUBA days when I was a Divemaster are long past, but I guess a period of decompression
will have to take place before returning to the earth’s surface, hopefully when
the results are in it will show a way to help prevent diseases tied to aging, I
need all the help I can get!
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