David Blaine’s dive for death ‘Peter Panned’

David Blaine’s latest “stunt” ended last night and it did not live up anywhere near the billing. David announced that he would hang upside down in NYC’s Central Park for 60 hours. What he failed to mention was that he would take several breaks standing on his feet during the day to be medically checked out.

Last night, David’s 60 hours were up and he was supposed to do the “death dive” into the ground as part of a two hour TV special. Instead David’s dive was something you can see at any community theater production of “Peter Pan.” David jumped from the platform while attached to harness and then he stopped about halfway down in midair. The 35-year-old illusionist hung there for a few seconds and then disappeared into the night i.e. before the hoister of his harness whisked him away. In fairness even with the stand up breaks what Blaine did being suspended upside down for so many hours and without food or sleep was beyond the capabilities of most. And if you caught the special a couple of his tricks were pretty cool, like the camera phone and the dollar bill illusion, but the grand finale ‘dive of death’ was pretty lame.