Blaine Rescued from Aquarium
Published: May 10, 2006
Suddenly, the records didn’t matter anymore.
David Blaine’s trainer says Blaine was unconscious and having convulsions when he was rescued Monday night from the eight-foot aquarium where he’d been living for the past week.
Blaine had been trying to break a breath-holding record of eight minutes and 58 seconds at the end of the week-long stunt in New York.
His trainer, Kirk Krack, says when he pulled Blaine out of the water, he “wasn’t focused on records,” he was just “thinking of a rescue.” He adds, “If we hadn’t intervened, he would still be at the bottom of the sphere doing a breath-hold.”
Blaine went without air for seven minutes and eight seconds as he wrapped up his endurance stunt on live TV.
He checked himself out of a hospital Tuesday. Once he got home, he took a hot shower, played some cards, and was able to eat. But a member of his medical team says Blaine still thinks he “let people down.”
The doctor says Blaine’s skin, which was peeling Monday night, “looks much better today [Tuesday].”
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