"Make no mistake about it, the focus of this show, boys and girls, is not Blaine. It is really about theatrical proxemics; about the show-within-a-show and the spontaneous, visceral reactions of people being astonished."USA Today calls David “The hottest name in magic right now”?Buried Alive David Blaine buried underneath a 3.5 ton tank of water in New York.On April 5, 1999,
Blaine was entombed in an underground plastic box underneath a 3-ton water-filled tank for seven days across from Trump Place on 68th St. and Riverside Drive. According to 'CNN, "Blaine's only communication to the outside world was by a hand buzzer, which could have alerted an around-the-clock emergency crew standing by." BBC News reported that the cramped plastic coffin offered six inches (152 mm) of headroom and two inches on each side.
During the seven days of the endurance stunt, Blaine ate nothing and drank only two to three tablespoons of water a day.An estimated 75,000 people visited the site, including Marie Blood, Harry Houdini's niece, who said, "My uncle did some amazing things, but he could not have done this."On the final day of the stunt.
April 12, hundreds of news teams were stationed at the site for the coffin-opening ceremony. A team of construction workers removed a portion of the 75 square feet (7.0 m2) of gravel surrounding the six-foot deep coffin before a crane lifted the 3-ton water tank.Blaine emerged from his underground coffin and told the crowd "I saw something very prophetic ... a vision of every race.
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