Living 11 meters below the sea in Panama in search of a record

The Manila Times

Living 11 meters below the sea in Panama in search of a record  At a depth of 11 meters off the coast of Panama, German Rudiger Koch has been living for two months in a capsule attached to a futuristic house built on the waters of the Caribbean Sea. The 59-year-old aerospace engineer aims to set a Guinness World Record and prove that it is possible to live comfortably and work underwater.  "Moving to the ocean is something we should do," Koch says during his confinement.   AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes  #worldnews  #panama  #guinnessworldrecords

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00:00Of course, anyone who tries to break a record is trying to push the envelope and so am I.

00:20So what we are trying to do here is proving that the seas are actually a viable environment

00:29for human expansion.

00:35So push the frontier.

00:36I'm not getting much sunlight here.

00:39That means what I'm adding now here is I take vitamin D supplements.

00:45I don't feel like I'm suffering down here.

00:49Not at all.

00:50The hardest is probably, well sometimes I would like to go diving.

00:55We are actually building an airlock.

00:58So we are going to change one of these windows to an airlock so I can get out from here.

01:04That would be compliant with the rules.

01:07What I'm also missing is a shower, a real shower like the water coming from up there.

01:12Being here, so this is like a reef.

01:14You know in the night you can hear all the crustaceans doing their stuff like clicking

01:23and stuff.

01:24There's the fish out there and there's all that stuff and that wasn't here before we

01:29came.

01:30Moving out to the ocean is something we should do as a species.

01:36So there should be many people living out in the ocean, not just myself and a few others.

01:42So that would be actually a contribution to restore things like reefs.

01:52We started the record attempt on September 26th and then we're going until January 24th

02:01and that's going to be 120 days.

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