PORTOBELO, Panama — There are probably easier ways to set a world record, but Rudiger Koch has found his method 11 meters (36 feet) under the sea.
PORTOBELO, Panama — There are probably easier ways to set a world record, but Rudiger Koch has found his method 11 meters under the sea.He's been living in a submerged capsule off the coast of Panama for two months — which means, he told a visiting AFP journalist, he has about two more to go.'The last time I checked, I was still married,' he joked, as fish swim through bright blue Caribbean waters outside the portholes.
'There's the fish out there, and there's all that stuff, and that wasn't here before we came.'A window into the seaOn a small bedside table lies Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,' a 19th century sci-fi classic.An admirer of the novel's Captain Nemo, Koch, who went down on September 26, is hoping to come up for air on January 24, surpassing by 20 days the record held by American Joseph Dituri, who spent 100 days submerged in a Florida lake.
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