The Record for the Longest Living Underwater Person Has Been Broken!

What humanity has to do to live in difficult conditions can be understood in a much more concrete way with tests suitable for these conditions. Recently living in a cave for 500 days and debuting Beatriz Flamini was one of the last examples of this.

Last day, this time, new news came from underwater. Serving in the US Navy, Dr. Joseph Dituri, He broke the record for the longest person living underwater. Dituri lived in a small underwater chamber for 74 days.

The record is refreshed every second, target is 100 days:

The chamber in which Dituri broke the record was not at a deep point in the oceans. In a lake in Key Largo, Florida, USA, at a depth of about 9 meters existed. Dituri hasn’t left the place where he lives yet, and he continues to break records with every passing second.

Dituri plans to stay in this small area where he lives until 9 June. If he achieves this goal, he will break the underwater record. with 100 days will break it and set an insurmountable goal.

Dituri, why is he doing such a thing?

The underwater life of Dituri is actually carried out within the scope of a research called “Project Neptune 100 (Project Neptune 100)”. In the mission run by the Marine Resources Development Foundation human psychology and the body’s response to prolonged extract pressure being investigated.

Dituri’s main ideas are “The idea is to fill the world’s oceans, to take care of them by living in them and being really nice to them.” in the form of sharing.

The environment he lives in is not a very harsh environment:

Dituri has his personal belongings as well as a computer and phone in the small area where he lives. She feeds herself with protein-based foods such as eggs and salmon.

Of course, there is also something he misses…

Although Dituri says that he is comfortable in his field, he also shared that there is something he misses:

“The thing I miss most about being on the surface is the Sun.”

The record for the longest underwater life was held by Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain with 73 days, 2 hours and 34 minutes.