Man Sets World Record For Longest Stay In Underwater Home To Prove Concept Of Ocean Living

Yesterday (Sunday, January 5), Rüdiger Koch set a new world record for the longest continuous stay below the water in an underwater room. The aerospace engineer spent 101 days under the Caribbean Sea just outside Linton Bay, Panama, beating out the previous record of 100 days set by Dr. Joseph Dituri. He passed the 14 weeks and change in a specialized Deepwater Model of the SeaPod, a line of fully aquatic residence homes designed and sold by his company, Ocean Builders.

Speaking to Bored Panda from beneath the waves, the Hemingway-esque industrialist and adventurer, familiarly known as Rudy, joined his co-founder and CEO Grant Romundt to reveal the challenges of spending more than three months underwater—and how doing so will help with an unexpected goal: space travel.

Ocean Builders co-founder and chief engineer Rüdiger Koch has spent over 100 days in an underwater room to prove the feasibility of his company’s Deepwater SeaPods, which will form floating cities