David Blaine's 'electrifying' New York stunt

 

David Blaine, the American stuntman, climbed onto a podium in New York, Standing 20 feet above the ground, with ‘lightning bolts’ of electricity seeming to course from his fingertips plans to remain on the podium, in the middle of seven Tesla coils, for 72 hours wearing a 27-pound chain mail suit, wire helmet and visor.

 

The chain mail suit – known as a Faraday suit, named after electricity pioneer Michael Faraday – has been designed so that the currents will cross his body without ever touching his skin.

Other Feats of David Blaine

In 1999 he was buried alive in a plastic box, underneath a three ton water tank in the centre of his hometown.When he emerged after seven days, he told the crowd: “I saw something very prophetic ... A vision of every race, every religion, every age group banding together, and that made all this worthwhile.” 

In 2000 David Blaine was frozen for almost 64 hours in a huge block of ice placed in Times Square, a stunt which left him dazed and unable to walk for a month.