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A week in a tank without coming out? Is he wearing a huge diaper or just going to swim with brown trout?
 
RoatanMan:
And what... you really believe this?

Okydoky.

This belongs in a different forum. Scuba Bobby led the way.

Well, it's all over ABC network news, with live reports from the tank several times each morning. I figure if he can make it 40 some odd days hanging in an acryllic box in Europe, he's crazy enough to try this. Whether he succeds or not is another thing.
 
when i first read it it started talking about how he was going to try and beat the world record for longest held breath... i was like... 7 days might just beat that record.. then i read on :D
 
jepuskar:
I lost respect for this guy once I read how he did his levitation trick.
Please tell, I am curious how he did that! I actually am going to keep up with the breath-hold attempt.
 
freediver:
Please tell, I am curious how he did that! I actually am going to keep up with the breath-hold attempt.

Annoyingly obvious... I'll tell you why.

It only "works" from one viewing perspective. You have to be where the camera was to see him "float". Careful positioning of feet and tippy toes... and from your perspective... he floats.

I had a situation with a target shooting club. One of our members is also one of the Illusionists (magicians) that was featured on that FOX show a couple of years back, I like to call it When Magicians Attack, you know- the hooded magician and all of that. He wanted to shoot clay pigeons while blindfolded. The management of the club thought that this would be just too dangerous!

I invited three Board Members to leave the meeting and go to a private area to watch the member do his "levitation illusion". We positioned them correctly, and although I could see from my perspective what was happening, to them, it looked like he had floated. (I'm too clumsy to duplicate this)

We returned to the Board Meeting and I addressed the rest of the board and explained to them that these three members had just seen our pal "fly". If they had any further concerns as to the safety of blindfolded clay pigeon shooting, maybe he would fly for them too. It took them a second or two to get it, but it's an illusion. Get it?

So David Blaine is going to soak his bones "with the pressure of 1900 gallons of water crushing against him" for however many days. OK, so he's basically going to immerse himself in warm water, laced with salt and probably glycerin as a skin emollient. If you set your mind to it and had no real life, this is nothing any one of us couldn't do. He will drink fluids. He will sleep while he is wearing the Kirby Morgan full face mask. Nothing I or many of our friends haven't done.

Then on the last day, he will perform an illusion of holding his breath for 7 minutes (1 minute less than the record) ... or maybe longer than the record... or maybe he will really hold his breath. You prolly got him beat on this, Freediver.

He will undo the locks and chains "with his debilitated hands" and voila, he will emerge and wind up in the tabloids boinking a supermodel.

Man, that's the magic trick.

Now, good, everybody go sign up on the a'MazinSCUBA website so they can have a commercial website product and make money. SCUBABobby #2
 

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