Professor sets record for living underwater

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A US university professor has broken a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurisation at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Joseph Dituri’s 74th day residing in Jules’ Undersea Lodge&comma; situated at the bottom of a 30ft-deep lagoon in Key Largo&comma; was not much different to his previous days there since he submerged on March 1&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Prof Dituri&comma; who also goes by the moniker Dr Deep Sea&comma; ate a protein-heavy meal of eggs and salmon prepared using a microwave&comma; exercised with resistance bands&comma; did his daily push-ups and took an hour-long nap&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unlike a submarine&comma; the lodge does not use technology to adjust for the increased underwater pressure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The previous record of 73 days&comma; two hours and 34 minutes was set by two Tennessee professors – Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain – at the same location in 2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Prof Dituri is not just settling for the record and resurfacing&colon; he plans to stay at the lodge until June 9&comma; when he reaches 100 days and completes an underwater mission dubbed Project Neptune 100&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The mission combines medical and ocean research along with educational outreach and was organised by the Marine Resources Development Foundation&comma; owner of the habitat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The record is a small bump and I really appreciate it&comma;” said Prof Dituri&comma; a University of South Florida educator who holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering and is a retired US naval officer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m honoured to have it&comma; but we still have more science to do&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His research includes daily experiments in physiology to monitor how the human body responds to long-term exposure to extreme pressure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The idea here is to populate the world’s oceans&comma; to take care of them by living in them and really treating them well&comma;” Prof Dituri said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The outreach portion of Prof Dituri’s mission includes conducting online classes and broadcast interviews from his digital studio beneath the sea&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During the past 74 days&comma; he has reached more than 2&comma;500 students through online classes in marine science and more with his regular biomedical engineering courses at the University of South Florida&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While he says he loves living under the ocean&comma; 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