To follow up on a previous post about David Blaine putting himself in a fish bowl, setting a record for living under water for 175 hours and trying to break the “hold your breath” record. Well, Mr. Blaine did not break the “hold your breath” record. This magic trick was on TV last night on ABC. The article from the AP reads, “he emerged weak and wrinkly from a week spent submerged within an 8-foot snow globe-like tank — but without a world record for holding his breath. Rescue divers jumped into the tank Monday and hauled up the stunt artist as he struggled to break the record of 8 minutes, 58 seconds. Blaine held his breath for 7:08 minutes. The challenge had taken a toll on the magician’s body, including liver damage, pins and needles in his feet and hands, some loss of sensation and rashes all over his body, said Dr. Murat Gunel, who heads Blaine’s medical team and is associate professor of neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine.”
My only thoughts are this: too bad he did not set the record after so much effort and what was this guy thinking?
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