David Blaine Breaks Record for Holding Breath

David Blaine broke the world record for holding his breath the longest ever.   He did it on the Oprah Winfield show yesterday, April 30, 2008.  The old record was 16 minutes and 32 seconds.  The new record for holding your breath that Blaine set is now at 17 minutes and 4.4 seconds.

David Blaine who I first saw doing some weird street magic like levitating of the ground and freaking people out as they watch is well known for these kinds of stunts.  Dangerous stunts at that.  I can’t even imagine holding my breath for 2 minutes let alone over 17 minutes.  I have a hard enough time holding my breath in the shower just washing my face.  From an article on MSNBC.com it says that he was allowed to breath pure oxygen before attempting to break the world record for up to half an hour.  Believe it or not by doing that it gave him an extra 9 minutes under water holding his breath.  It doesn’t get much weirder than that I suppose.

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Of course if it’s weird and entertaining then most likely the talented but living dangerously on the edge Blaine is probably involved in it some how or another.  If you ever get a chance to catch a TV show of his, DO IT!  I guarantee you will be impressed by whatever he is trying to pull off.  He is way ahead of his time and hopefully he will continue to stay healthy while trying these stunts that he does.  If I were a betting man, which I am, my bet would be that David Blaine isn’t a smoker.

Anyways while reading the story about Blaine setting the breath holding record which you can read at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24376304/ 

I came across some other weird records that were broken.  It’s a slide show of some of the strange world records that have been broken and recorded by Guinness world records and it’s also at MSNBC.  Check out the slide show at http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=20076910,4999736&pg=1 for some other weird pictures on world records being boken.

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May 1, 2008 | Filed Under Entertainment 

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