Post by Verminda Spirit on May 4, 2006 13:23:09 GMT
I just love this bloke, he's not bad looking either 
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David Blaine is "drowned alive"
Magician David Blaine has been buried alive for seven days, frozen for 61 hours, perched 90 feet up on a pole for 35 hours, and suspended for 44 days. Now, he has been submerged in a human aquarium and plans to stay there for a week. "My system is completely empty," he said before being submerged. "So that way in the sphere I don't have to use the bathroom. I have a catheter in case I have to do No. 1, but I don't intend on doing anything else." To prepare for his weeklong stay in 2,000 gallons of 96-degree salthingyer, Blaine underwent grueling training with the Navy SEALs and oxygen deprivation while diving with stingrays. "What was amazing about the Navy SEALs — a lot of their training, although it is physical, is more about the mental and spiritual part," said Blaine, 33. "They talk about overriding the pain in your body by finding something to take you away from it." If he survives his seven-day endurance test, Blaine will handcuff himself to 150 pounds of chain and then remove his breathing apparatus.
He hopes to break the world record of almost nine minutes without breathing. The stunt will be broadcast on ABC on May 8. "I'll have to escape from all these chains, and if not I will drown and the world will see something pretty insane," he said. Blaine said he had lost 50 pounds while practicing holding his breath. "I would wake up and hold my breath for 48 minutes out of the course of every hour," he said. "I'd breathe for a minute, hold my breath for five minutes immediately after, and then right after that, breathe a minute, hold for six minutes and keep going for all the way up to an hour. In that process, your CO2 levels become so high, your body has to work like a marathon runner to get rid of it."
...David Blaine is "drowned alive"
Magician David Blaine has been buried alive for seven days, frozen for 61 hours, perched 90 feet up on a pole for 35 hours, and suspended for 44 days. Now, he has been submerged in a human aquarium and plans to stay there for a week. "My system is completely empty," he said before being submerged. "So that way in the sphere I don't have to use the bathroom. I have a catheter in case I have to do No. 1, but I don't intend on doing anything else." To prepare for his weeklong stay in 2,000 gallons of 96-degree salthingyer, Blaine underwent grueling training with the Navy SEALs and oxygen deprivation while diving with stingrays. "What was amazing about the Navy SEALs — a lot of their training, although it is physical, is more about the mental and spiritual part," said Blaine, 33. "They talk about overriding the pain in your body by finding something to take you away from it." If he survives his seven-day endurance test, Blaine will handcuff himself to 150 pounds of chain and then remove his breathing apparatus.
He hopes to break the world record of almost nine minutes without breathing. The stunt will be broadcast on ABC on May 8. "I'll have to escape from all these chains, and if not I will drown and the world will see something pretty insane," he said. Blaine said he had lost 50 pounds while practicing holding his breath. "I would wake up and hold my breath for 48 minutes out of the course of every hour," he said. "I'd breathe for a minute, hold my breath for five minutes immediately after, and then right after that, breathe a minute, hold for six minutes and keep going for all the way up to an hour. In that process, your CO2 levels become so high, your body has to work like a marathon runner to get rid of it."
