Dr. Joseph Dituri is currently six days into his attempt to set a new record for underwater human habitation.
Located beneath the surface of a Key Largo lagoon, the facility was built as a marine research laboratory before it was converted into an underwater hotel in 1986. The previous record, 73 days, was set there in 2014.
Pulitzer Prize winner, health-care executive named to lead new Orange County tourist tax advisory ...
The county's 6% levy on hotel rooms and other short-term lodgings raised more than $300 million last year, the most ever.
Healy said a lobbyist texted her Wednesday soon after her appointment was shared with Orange County commissioners.
"There's going to be intense interest in this, I think, because this is the first time it hasn't been the TDC giving the [spending] recommendation," she said, referring to the Tourist Development Council advisory board, whose seven members include three hoteliers.
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