Here’s Why This Scientist Is Living Underwater for 100 Days

On 1 March, Joseph Dituri began living underwater, in a room measuring just 9m2, 9 meters below the waves off the coast of Florida. <i>"Everything we need is on this planet. We have the disease; we have the cure. We just have to go find it. And how do you find stuff? Well, you live here. So at that point, I started pushing down the road of, I think we need to live in the ocean."</i> The atmospheric pressure inside his underwater habitat is about 1.6 times higher than the sea level. That’s enough to crush empty plastic bottles or to make a banana explode. Dituri is studying how pressure affects our body over a long period of time. The second goal of living underwater is to inspire a new generation of scientists. His third goal is to further the understanding of the ocean and its undiscovered denizens. Watch to learn more.