Tampa scientist says record-breaking underwater mission continues in Tampa

A USF professor gained international attention this summer after spending a record 100 days underwater in a fixed habitat. However, after months of publicity, he wants to remind people the mission continues right here in Tampa. Dr. Joseph Dituri became famous for living in a sea lab 22 feet underwater off the coast of Key Largo, but it was at the Undersea Oxygen Clinic in Tampa where the mission really began six years previously. “So right now what you have here is someone going in for a hyperbaric treatment. Hyper means more than; baric means pressure,” said the biomedical engineer as he monitored a patient.