Magician Survives Being Buried Alive

Seven days after he entered a transparent coffin set 6 feet into the ground, magician David Blaine was helped out looking fit but slightly wobbly. Hundreds of spectators cheered when the three-ton tank of water that covered his see-through coffin on Manhattan’s upper West Side was lifted and Blaine sat up and smiled. The coffin had given him only about 6 inches of head room and 2 inches on each side. Air was pumped into the coffin, but Blaine said he was given no food and received only 3 to 4 tablespoons of water a day through an intravenous tube. A plastic container and tube handled toilet necessities.