Soggy

Someday, you'll recognize the name "Joseph Dituri" as being that of the researcher who broke the world record for...living underwater.

Dituri has been down at the bottom of a 30-ft deep lagoon in Key Largo, Florida, in a lodge that does not use depressurisation.

He plans to remain there for at least 100 days. The count right now is 80-some days.

"The curiosity for discovery has led me here," he says. "My goal from day one has been to inspire generations to come, interview scientists who study life undersea and learn how the human body functions in extreme environments," he went on.

Two professors hung out in the same undersea "lodge" for 73 days in 2014, but Dituri is looking at 73 in the rearview mirror, if there is one.

This "lodge" - named the Verne Lodge, after Jules Verne, author of science-fiction classic "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" -  does not adjust for the increased underwater pressure.This does not help us understand why someone would want to be down there, but whatever.

Professor Dituri,55, is running a study called Project Neptune 100 to find out how a human's body reacts to that sort of underwater extreme pressure. When he finally surfaces and towels off, medical doctors will evaluate his physical state and the psychological of being isolated and confined for a long time.

But it's not like he's down there watching "The Blue Lagoon" on cable or anything...he is still teaching his biomedical engineering classes online for the University of South Florida.

And it's not like he is being deprived of earthly pleasures! He gets out of bed at 0500 and exercises, and loads up on proteins (eggs, salmon, etc) that he prepares in a microwave oven.

And he knows what he misses about Life On Earth: The Sun. "The thing that I miss the most about being on the surface is literally the sun," he told the Associated Press.

He should really slather on the SPF when he gets to the beach. After all this time, he's probably a little pasty.