Florida professor aims to spend 100 days in underwater

• Joseph Dituri, an associate professor at the University of South Florida.
• He wants to stay in the Jules Undersea Lodge for 100 days to break the Guinness World Record.
• His research was motivated by James Cameron, and he hopes to make new discoveries.

A University of South Florida professor has spent the previous 16 days in a structure 22 feet beneath the water, and he intends to stay for a total of 100 days.

Joseph Dituri, an associate professor at the University of South Florida, is staying in the Jules Undersea Lodge, which is located 22 feet below the surface in a Key Largo lagoon.

Dituri plans to stay for 100 days in order to break the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous time spent in an underwater habitat. Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain set the current record of 73 days in 2014 at the Jules Undersea Lodge.

Dituri stated that his research was motivated by director James Cameron, who asked him to analyze one of his submersibles in 2012.

The professor hopes that his experience, called Project Neptune, would enable him to make new discoveries, such as researching the project’s effect on his own body.

Dituri, who is documenting his effort on social media, says he will not be alone for the duration of the project since student divers will pay visits to the Jules Undersea Lodge on occasion.

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