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Published 16:00 14 Aug 2026 GMT
A Florida man who spent 100 days living underwater says his body has since undergone a shocking transformation.
In fact, he's saying that a new "glitch" has totally transformed the way he uses his body on land.
Doctor Joseph Dituri, also known as Dr Deepsea, spent more than three months 30 feet underwater inside a special pod at a Key Largo lagoon in Florida.
Once he landed back on dry land, Dituri went to work seeing just how those 100 days underwater had changed his body. He was shocked by what he found.
After returning from his world record-breaking stay underwater, Dituri started to examine himself and the many changes his body had undergone.
In fact, it turned out that living underwater in such a high pressure environment for so long had changed his body.
Dituri says that, following his underwater adventure, his body had de-aged, with his cells appearing younger than when he had gone in.
Speaking to NBC, he revealed that he'd undergone a host of tests in order to determine just how much his body had changed.
When the results came back, they showed that his cholesterol levels had decreased, the inflammation throughout his body had gone down, and that he was now able to concentrate on tasks much better than he had before.
He also maintains that, now back on land, he sleeps much better and, due to his rigorous workout schedule underwater, retained his total body mass.
Dituri says that his stay underwater was motivated by curiosity, that he wanted to know how living in a pressurized environment could affect the human body, and claimed the results of the experiment could help ocean researchers and astronauts planning manned missions to Mars in the future.
The pod Dituri stayed in was designed to have the same pressure as the ocean outside of it.
But Dituri did actually break a world record whilst spending all that time underwater.
With his original experiment taking place in 2023, Dituri officially became a Guinness World Record holder for the longest time spent living underwater in a fixed habitat, something which has since been broken again.
But he remained steadfast that his work was about much more than a title.
"It was never about the record," he told. CBS News. “It was about extending human tolerance for the underwater world and for an isolated, confined, extreme environment.”
