Friday, March 29

The man who will live 100 days underwater by science | Digital Trends Spanish

His name is Joseph Dituri and he is a 55-year-old professor from Florida who plans to spend 100 days 10 meters below the surface of the oceanin a kind of underwater shelter below the surface in Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo.

His goal: to discover how the constant increase in pressure affects his body and mind and that of the rest of humans.

As explained in an Instagram video Dituri when the trip began on March 1:

“I will be living in my underwater habitat for the next 100 days. And guess what, guys, we’re going to make science out of this. We’re going to be talking about biomedical engineering, doing experiments in biology and biomedical engineering, we’re going to be talking to who’s who in the underwater kingdom, and we’re going to have a good time!

The human body has never been underwater for this long, so I will be closely monitored. This study will examine all the ways this trip affects my body, but my null hypothesis is that there will be improvements in my health due to increased pressure.”

The professor bases his underwater body improvement hypothesis on the findings of a study in which cells exposed to higher pressure doubled in five days. Therefore, Dituri thinks that increased pressure could increase your longevity and prevent aging-related diseases.

Some conditions and safeguards that you must have: air must be constantly pumped into the habitable space, which creates a pressure of approximately 1.6 times that of the Earth’s surface and also monitoring that the professor talks about is made up of a medical group who will visit him regularly for blood tests, ultrasounds and EKGs, along with psychosocial and psychological tests to understand the mental effects of being trapped alone underwater for so long.

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