Florida’s ‘Dr. Deep’ Resurfaces After a Record 100 Days Living Underwater

Diving explorer and medical researcher Dr. Joseph Dituri points to his watch after spending 100 days in the Jules' Undersea Lodge marine habitat at the bottom of a Key Largo, Fla., lagoon on June 9, 2023. Mariano Lorde/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP

KEY LARGO, Fla.—A university professor who spent 100 days living underwater at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers resurfaced Friday and raised his face to the sun for the first time since March 1.

Dr. Joseph Dituri set a new record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization during his stay at Jules’ Undersea Lodge, submerged beneath 30 feet (9.14 meters) of water in a Key Largo lagoon.