New breath hold record - David Blaine

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by SoggyFox

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Blaine sets breathtaking record

I've a number of ideas for future stunts for this idiot, we've all seen the old circus entertainers catch bullet with their teeth, well i'm wondering if git boy could catch a whole magazine load from an AK47.

p.s he uses 100% O2 before the stunt, so in IMHO its cheating.

Sounds a bit like my Grandad, who was an RAF fighter pilot in WW2; he reckoned that they'd cheated when they climbed Everest in 1952 because they'd used Oxygen, until my Grandmother pointed out that if that was the case, then he hadn't really flown, because he needed an aeroplane to do that.

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

Its a valid record. The previous record for this was 16min 45 sec.


Using pure 02 to flush C02??? I wasn't aware that was possable?


I thaught the motablisation of 02 created co2?


We use the amount of 02 consumed on a CCR to calcualate our C02 production.


ATB

Mark

The hyperventilation flushes out the CO2, and hyperventilating pure O2 means you saturate your bloodstream with O2 (well, to a point anyway - you can only get a little more saturated than normal) but the last breath you take has 100% O2 vs 21% O2 which means it lasts longer on a breath hold, with alveolar exchange in the lungs taking place for much longer than normal.

Well, that's how I understood it anyway when we were talking about it with the diving doc a couple of years ago.

[purple vonny]

Originally Posted by big_si

I'd like to see David Blane not take any more breaths personally...

Bitch!!

Originally Posted by David P

Yeah, there is that. Don't disagree - he's very irritating and very strange. ...

Meow. Saucer of milk?

Originally Posted by frosty the snowman

'publicity seeking waste of space' how about making something disappear? Yourself for instance...

Handbags

Originally Posted by Arfie

No doubt Channel 4 will have commisioned a 3 hour special to celebrate it.

His street magic used to be quite entertaining, pity he's become a pretentious publicity whore.

Arfie

Ooh hark at you

Originally Posted by Ahoy

He's a proper crank

Yes, but he's a famous rich crank. You lot a all very bitchy intcha?

[Tunicates]

[schoolyard chanting]
Vonny fancies David
Vonny fancies David
Vonny fancies David[/schoolyard chanting]














sorry.

[ratcliffe]

Yup, I reckon an old schoolyard divide game would create 99% for Vonny and David

[David P]

Originally Posted by purple vonny

You lot a all very bitchy intcha?

Nah - we're being objective and factual (ie however strange anyone here may be - form an orderly queue - he's streets and streets ahead in the strangeness department) and you're just being silly

[big_si]

Originally Posted by purple vonny

Bitch!!



Meow. Saucer of milk?



Handbags



Ooh hark at you



Yes, but he's a famous rich crank. You lot a all very bitchy intcha?

Yes... yes we are! should we be swayed by his fame status or financial situation?

If I went and stood in a box on a pole for a month they'd lock me up for being mad! If I then went and put myself in a block of ice I'd be on 24 hour guard wearing a jacket with extra long sleeves in a room with particularly thick padded wallpaper

I'm sure these feats of amazingness are of great benefit to the human race but I fail to spot how.... oh wait, now I spot it... It's pulling us all together to poke fun at him.... Ah, what a wonderful chap! He's doing all this for world harmony! I like him now!