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Two Italians have accepted a challenge to live underwater for 10 days to gauge the effect on the human body. Stefania Mensa, 29, and Stefano Barbaresi, 37, dived off the island of Ponza on Wednesday.
Netting on the beds keeps them from floating out of their roofless apartment at night.
They’ll be allowed to enter an underwater dry chamber every five hours to eat, change their full-face oxygen masks and attend to basic physical needs.
Asked what she would miss most, Mensa said, “The ground and the air.”
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