![]() He had a very regimented diet, eating three eggs in the morning, a hearty salad for lunch and meat and vegetables for dinner. He stayed in shape by doing 100 pushups and sit-ups a day, in addition to yoga. They’ll present their findings at the World Extreme Medical Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland in November.ĭituri documented some of his day-to-day life underwater on Instagram. ![]() What now?ĭituri said it’ll take about six months for him and his team to study all the data and observations from 100 days under water. “From plankton getting eaten by worms to getting eaten by little fish to getting eaten by big fish … when you’re immersed you see the entire thing,” he said. He also got to see a seahorse for the first time in his life, swim with a manatee and witness “the whole circle of life.” He got to watch Fred shed his exoskeleton multiple times, grow larger and eventually start his own family. While living underwater, he said he made friends with a lobster he named Fred. While he most missed regular human contact underwater, Dituri knows it’s sea life that he’ll miss the most back on dry land. I got all the high-fives that I wanted and all the handshakes.” “I got to the point where I was like, ‘OK, I’m gonna need a hug.’ And when I got up (to the surface), I met every marker for every hug that I wanted. Boy, there’s none of that down there,” he said. “We’re creatures that are tactile in nature. Though he got visits, his life under the sea could be isolating and made him miss regular access to human contact, particularly with his girlfriend and three daughters. During that time, he got visits from 60 different people, including his mother, his brother, 26 schoolchildren interested in science, and a handful of scientists. ![]() Life below and above seaĪlthough Dituri was living under water for 100 days, he wasn’t bereft of human contact. That's the cool part.”Īs for his cholesterol, he said his diet did not change underwater and was kept the same on purpose so that any difference in his biochemistry would be the result of the altered living conditions. “That's part of experimentation, right?” he said. He said he doesn’t know yet whether he’ll gain that height back living on the surface again. On the flip side, astronauts get taller in space. Seen his inflammation (which causes disease) go down by 30 percentĭituri attributes the height loss to living in compression.Gotten 60-66 percent rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep compared to 40 percent prior.Since living underwater for 100 days, Dituri has: They're monitoring brain waves, heart rate, blood pressure, ear pressure, urine, oxygen saturation and muscle measurements, among others. A medical team continued running tests on him while he was underwater and will continue to do so in the coming weeks. (He's passionate about biohacking and plans to live to be 110 years old.)ĭituri underwent a battery of psychological and medical tests before he started living in a 100-square-foot special habitat 25 feet below the surface. He wanted to study how the human body responds to long-term exposure to extreme pressure and whether living in hyperbaric pressure can slow the aging process. Initial observationsĭituri's main purpose while living underwater was not to break records. The previous record of 73 days was set in 2014 by two Tennessee professors.ĭituri, 55, spoke with USA TODAY a couple hours after he resurfaced to share his initial findings about how underwater life affects the human body, what he missed the most about living on land and what he’ll miss about his time underwater. “What are you guys all doing here?” he joked as he floated on the surface before declaring, “We did it!”ĭituri, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of South Florida, broke the world record for the most days a human has lived underwater. He waved to a cheering crowd as he came up wearing a wet suit and goggles. ![]() Joseph Dituri rose slowly from his temporary home in an ocean lagoon in Key Largo, Florida. Hall and Cody Godwin, Associated PressĪ Florida professor emerged Friday from spending 100 days living underwater, shattering the previous record of 73 days.
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