I was switching back and forth between this and 24. That was sad, the story about the pretty marine biologist who died trying to break her husbands free diving record. Do you guys think he could have broken the record if he just tried holding his breath and not needing to unchain himself?
How the hell do you go 7 days and not poop? I guess he could just pee in the tank if he needed to.. Also, 7 days without eating or drinking anything seems like one hell of a fast..
I heard that Geraldo Rivera was assigned to cover this event but when he showed up today no one was there...
I think it was on Sundance (same difference) It was called Samaritan Girl. The first girl I thought was unfairly hot. The second one not as much, but good enough. I got really mad when she started giving it away for free.
you've gotta admit, would of been pretty damn funny if he really did drown alive. or ... erm... at least i thought it would of been.
Guys, this was all an illusion- I doubt he was really in there for the entire time. It's all smoke and mirrors. It's fun to watch and lose yourself in the illusion, but keep in mind that it's not real. The fact that you can't figure it out doesn't mean that it's really happening. Illusionists have been fooling people for thousands of years the exact same way. Read The Prestige by Christopher Priest. Other than the very end, where it gets fictional, it gives you a great idea of how stage magicians really do their thing and fool everyone.
Criss Angel stops by to discuss the genius of David Blaine on Penn Jillette's radio show yesterday. hxxp://podcast.923freefm.com/wfny/10618.mp3
He had no solid foods many days prior to the event. He was given fluids through a feeding tube. He had a catheter or some other tube, to remove his piss from the tank.
This wasn't even really magic or an illusion. It was just a test of endurance. Blaine has been doing this for many years now. Yes, his street magic is an illusion like all magic is. I was there at Lincoln Center some days before in the middle of the night, and I can tell you that he was in the sphere. I could even see his digital watch ticking.
You are wrong. period. This was not an illusion. Did you watch it? Or are you just making a generalized baseless claim? http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DAVID_BLAINE?SITE=PAREA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Trainer says Blaine had convulsions, was unconscious when rescued from breath-holding stunt NEW YORK (AP) -- David Blaine was unconscious and having convulsions when he was rescued from his 8-foot aquarium during a breath-holding stunt, his trainer said Tuesday. "I wasn't focused on records; I was thinking of a rescue," said trainer Kirk Krack, a free-diving expert. Blaine was convulsing and "unconscious when we brought him to the surface. If we hadn't intervened, he would still be at the bottom of the sphere doing a breath-hold." The 33-year-old illusionist had been submerged in the aquarium with an oxygen mask for a week. Rescue divers jumped into the 2,000-gallon saltwater tank Monday night and hauled him up. He was rescued as he struggled to break a breath-holding record of 8 minutes, 58 seconds. Blaine, who had spent some 177 hours underwater, went without air for 7 minutes, 8 seconds as a finale to his endurance stunt at Lincoln Center, which was televised live on ABC. Blaine checked himself out of Roosevelt Hospital on Tuesday. Friends took him out of the hospital in a wheelchair and then helped him walk to a waiting car. At home, he took a hot shower, played cards and was able to eat. But "he was crying" Monday night, said Dr. Murat Gunel, the head of Blaine's medical team. "He still feels today that he let people down." Blaine's liver and kidney functions had suffered while he was submerged but are now improving. His skin, which was peeling Monday night, "looks much better today," said Gunel.His team concluded that strenuous training and losing 50 pounds so his body would require less oxygen left Blaine too tired before he entered the sphere. They said Blaine wants to try the breath-holding stunt again. Next time, he plans to be in better shape, and do it without being in a tank for a week beforehand. "He is going over everything he did and analyzing what happened," said Gunel, associate professor of neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine. "He is remarkably strong." "I think he was a great success," said Krack, adding there are only a handful of people who can hold their breath for more than 4 minutes with training. Blaine started training in December, with some help from Navy SEALS. The water temperature was regulated to help keep his core temperature near 98.6 degrees, and he ate and relieved himself through tubes.
Trainer says Blaine had convulsions ____________ I for one am shocked that someone Blaine hired would say something exciting happened during the trick to cause more free publicity for the magician.
Heh. I remember the last time Blaine did one of these stunts. He stayed inside a block of ice or something. In the end when he was taken out, I remember the announcers making a big deal about him having such a bizarre glazed look in his eyes, and hinting at some kind of permanent damage. All I could think about was how fake everything was. The guy is making a damn fine career right now, out of these overblown tests of endurance. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Blaine was getting pure oxygen pumped into him, in which case the record would have been like 15 minutes. And he cut things off early so that he wasn't called on his 9 minute "record", and made to prove that he got it fair and square. I mean even with missing the "record" he still got plenty of attention and big chunk of network special money. He plays up what an ordeal he went though, plots out his next test of endurance, puts it in Times Square, and gets another special. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Unfathomably wrong of you to dive below that level. Meanwhile, anyone see Charles Barkley go "in the tank" Monday night on TNT? 24 seconds!!!
a trickless magician. i didnt see it, and was not interested. call me when he decides to jump out of a plane with no parachute, maybe then ill watch.
