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David Blaine: Drowned Alive? Part III

Posted By Paul Kotik on 4 May 2006

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Hands of a Corpse

These hands looked very much like those of a corpse I’d once seen pickled in a tub, awaiting transport to a proper morgue. It looked as though the flesh would simply fall off in chunks if Vivianna rubbed too hard.

David Blaine Prune Knuckles
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David Blaine Prune Palm
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And David Blaine is only 48 hours into the week-long stunt.

I must have been staring, slack-jawed, when Kirk snapped me out of it. "You’re the only media that’s been allowed up here", he whispered. "Go on, get your pictures."

The hatch stayed open, and David Blaine’s hands stayed in the air for about twenty minutes before Martin Stepanek re-gloved him and he sank back down. Blaine was back on the job instantly, pressing palms through the glass with the awe-struck spectators as they filed by. A toddler held up a crayoned sign: “ David We Believe In You”.  Martin lowered a plastic sack of red Gatorade into the sphere, and Blaine took a few sips through a tube.

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