LeMelon » David Blaine http://lemelon.com Funny and/or interesting videos and links from across the web Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:58:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 David Blaine on how he held his breath for 17 minutes (TED talk) http://lemelon.com/2010/01/21/david-blaine-on-how-he-held-his-breath-for-17-minutes-ted-talk/ http://lemelon.com/2010/01/21/david-blaine-on-how-he-held-his-breath-for-17-minutes-ted-talk/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:47:02 +0000 admin http://lemelon.com/?p=12 I’m sure a lot of you know who David Blaine is and some of you probably know about him getting the Guinness World Record for ‘oxygen-assisted static apnea’ – a fancy term for breathing pure oxygen for a while and then seeing how long you can hold your breath while submerged in water – in 2008.

In this video, Blaine explains the journey to this world record and what was going on during the record-breaking attempt. Really interesting stuff:

I’m sure there will be many more David Blaine related videos to come, along with lots of other great posts so check back often!

[Thanks TED]

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