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Escape artist nearly drowns

A lot of people -- including Penn & Teller -- have done this stunt. (In P&T's version, Teller looks like he's drowned while Penn goes on with the show.) It's hard to believe how any "magician" could do this without safety mechanisms that he could access inside.
 
Bob001 said:
A lot of people -- including Penn & Teller -- have done this stunt. (In P&T's version, Teller looks like he's drowned while Penn goes on with the show.) It's hard to believe how any "magician" could do this without safety mechanisms that he could access inside.
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I'm not familiar with the magician or the specific illusion, but things go wrong. I do one with a razor blade in my fist, and you can bet I've dulled the hell out of it. But before the switch, there's a fresh, sharp, razor blade in play.

Here's one where things that shouldn't go wrong went wrong:
 
That was pretty cool. The trickiest part, to me, was him grabbing the parachute from the pouch on the outside of the cage. That part was incredibly risky in that the wind is grabbing everything and could have succeeded in pulling the parachute from his grasp.

But the must frustrating part was the caption that said if he doesn't open his parachute before 4,500 feet then "he risks certain death."

It's "certain" but he will only be risking it? Then it's not certain, right?

Ah, well.
 
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