Research field: Extreme environments

Records in this field

1. Physical, physiological and psychological effects of 100 days in an undersea habitat with a combination of dry and wet diving: Monitoring Project NEPTUNE 100

   What happens to a human body held at 1.6 atmospheres for a hundred consecutive days? This paper reports the physiological and psychological data from the record-setting habitat stay at Jules' Undersea Lodge in 2023. It is the first sustained-pressure dataset of its length on a single subject.

   Record 01USF faculty page

   Role

   First author

   Authors

   Dituri J, Giger M, Figueredo J, Spelsberg S

   Journal

   IHA Journal of Therapeutic Sciences

   Published

   2024 · 1(1)

   Type

   Journal article

   Subjects

   1

   Field

   Extreme environments

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2. The final frontier: what can we learn from surviving 100 days under the sea?

   A narrative and data summary of the hundred-day undersea mission, written for the sports medicine community. The question it poses to that audience: what does prolonged exposure to elevated ambient pressure teach us about human adaptation in extreme environments, and what carries over to altitude, spaceflight, and endurance sport?

   Record 02USF faculty page

   Role

   Co-author, 5 of 5

   Authors

   Solana N, Giger M, Figueredo J, Spelsberg S, Dituri J

   Journal

   Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal

   Published

   2024 · 13(TT34) · 638-645

   Type

   Journal article

   Field

   Extreme environments

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3. Electronic Life Support Control and Biometric Monitoring for Space Suits

   A space suit and a diving rig solve the same problem: keep a person alive inside a sealed volume, in an environment that will kill them if it fails. This chapter carries life-support control and biometric monitoring approaches out of undersea systems and into spacecraft and extraterrestrial habitat design.

   Record 03Crossref

   Role

   First author

   Authors

   Dituri J, Juergensen K, Decker M

   Journal

   Handbook of Life Support Systems for Spacecraft and Extraterrestrial Habitats (Springer)

   Published

   2020 · 1-29

   Type

   Book chapter

   Field

   Extreme environments

   DOI

   10.1007/978-3-319-09575-2_217-1

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4. Ocean Exploration: Living in the Deep Sea

   A chapter in the standard hyperbaric medicine reference, covering the physiology, engineering, and operational reality of extended human presence in deep-ocean habitats. The thread that connects saturation diving, undersea laboratories, and the hundred-day mission starts here.

   Record 04Publisher

   Role

   Co-author, 4 of 4

   Authors

   Whelan H, Leighton T, Annis H, Dituri J

   Journal

   Hyperbaric Medical Practice, 4th Edition (BEST Publishing)

   Published

   2017 · 1107-1133

   Type

   Book chapter

   Field

   Extreme environments

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5. Submarine Rescue Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine

   When a submarine is disabled on the bottom, the rescue diver works at the intersection of every pressure physiology problem at once: depth, time, gas mix, decompression obligation, and a casualty who may already be injured. This chapter covers the medical and engineering framework for that scenario.

   Record 05Publisher

   Role

   First author

   Authors

   Dituri J, Whelan H

   Journal

   Hyperbaric Medical Practice, 4th Edition (BEST Publishing)

   Published

   2017 · 1117-1149

   Type

   Book chapter

   Field

   Extreme environments

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6. Remotely Operated Vehicle Use Within Shipyards

   The earliest entry here, and the origin of the thread. Send a machine to do underwater inspection in a shipyard instead of sending a diver. Every question that follows, how much risk a human body should absorb and when a machine should absorb it instead, starts about here.

   Record 06Crossref

   Role

   Sole author

   Authors

   Dituri J

   Journal

   Journal of Ship Production

   Published

   2003 · 19(4) · 205-206

   Type

   Journal article

   Field

   Extreme environments

   DOI

   10.5957/jsp.2003.19.4.205

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7. Rebreathers and Their Uses

   A conference paper presented at Oceans 2001, the annual MTS/IEEE meeting. It surveys closed-circuit rebreather technology for the ocean engineering audience: how the devices work, where they outperform open-circuit scuba, and what the failure modes are.

   Record 07USF faculty page

   Role

   Sole author

   Authors

   Dituri J

   Journal

   Oceans 2001 MTS/IEEE Conference and Exhibition

   Published

   2001

   Type

   Conference paper

   Field

   Extreme environments

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