Joseph Dituri, a retired Navy officer, is attempting to break the world record for living underwater. All in the name of science.
The report was due on Christmas Day, 2012 — and so Joseph Dituri was up late on Christmas Eve.
"And at that point in my life I said, 'Everything that we need is on this planet. We just need to find it,'" he told NPR's Juana Summers. He'll be teaching courses virtually for the University of South Florida, where he's an associate professor. And he will do"a bunch of outreach" with noted marine scientists who are coming down to conduct livestreamed conversations — among them,"I get to spend the night with Sylvia Earle down here and hang out and chitchat," he says."How cool is that?"
Regarding that pressure, even at the relatively shallow depth of 20-30 feet underwater, Dituri describes his home for 100 days as a"positive pressure habitat." Air must be pumped in to counteract the effects of water pressure. "We have a macerated pump that's located down here and recycle it and push it up to the surface and joins the regular sewer line," Dituri says."So that is a good question. You got to go somewhere."
He also notes he won't be seeing much of his family and friends for that span, including his three daughters. But he describes everyone in his corner as a little worried, and pretty supportive.
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