Man decided to live underwater for 100 days to see what would happen to his body

A crazy professor with a passion to turn himself into a human experiment has finally told us the result of his crazy stunt.

The University of South Florida professor decided to push the limits of what his body could hack, and it turned out to be a crazy event.

Joe Dituri, also known by his name as Dr. Deep Sea, made it his mission to make the sea his ‘habitat’ until summer.

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Why did Joe decide to go underwater in the first place?

Dituri wanted to live underwater for 100 days and started his bizarre experiment on the 1st^st of March last year, for a first-of-its-kind biology study.

In an official press release from the University of South Florida, Dituri conducted the experiment in hopes of looking for new “ways to revitalize the marine environment.”

In addition, the researcher also wanted to ‘test medical technology that can prevent numerous diseases in humans’.

“But,” the release explains, “there’s one catch: He’s doing it all 30 feet underwater — and he’s trying to do it for 100 days.”

What exactly was the experiment about?

The retired U.S. Navy commander turned professor swam into his new 3,000-square-foot habitat about “two-thousandths of a mile under the sea” at Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo.

The professor then lived in ‘isolation’ for the entire duration of the mission, which has since been titled ‘Neptune 100’.

The press release explains: “Part of the work will involve a psychologist and a psychiatrist monitoring the effects he experiences while in an environment similar to long-duration space travel.

“It is an isolating, confined extreme environment. And as humans, we really have to figure out how we’re going to live in that (environment) if we’re going to expand our planet, if we’re going to become interplanetary. , if we want to find all the treatments we need to find.”

He admits he feels younger. Instafrag/drdeepsea

What happened when Joe was underwater?

According to the science enthusiast, the underwater experience has made him ‘younger’.

The scientist kept a close eye on how the prolonged extreme pressure was affecting him, and when he wasn’t busy, he was teaching schoolchildren online from his watery digs.

In fact, just a month after his experiment, Dr. Dituri and his team discovered a species: a single-celled organism now being studied by microbiologists.

Speaking to The Independent from his underwater tank room at the time, Dr Dituri said: “We believe it is a completely new species to science.

“People have dived this area thousands and thousands of times – it’s been here, we just haven’t looked at it.”

The scientist even found a new species. Instagram/@DrDeepSea

How did being underwater affect Joe when he came out?

When he resurfaced in June last year, he further claimed that many aspects of his health had improved, including longer telomeres – structures on chromosomes often linked to prolonging life.

Dr. Dituri told WKMG News in Orlando: “I am now 56. My extrinsic (biological) age was 44. When I got out of the water, my extrinsic age was 34.

“So my telomeres got longer. I actually got younger when I was underwater.”

When he emerged from his underwater mission, Dituri claimed that blood tests showed a 50 percent reduction in every inflammatory marker in his body.

He also managed to become the Guinness World Record holder for most days underwater, beating the old record of 73 days.

Featured image credits: Instagram/@DrDeepSea/Cassidy Delamarter / The University of South Florida

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