Monday, January 4, 2010

Longest time spent in a sub-zero ice cube - Hezi Din sets world record

 TEL AVIV, Israel--Israeli magician Hezi Din , 29, spent 64 hours inside an 8-tonne block of ice, until he was cut out -setting the new world record for the Longest time spent in a sub-zero ice cube .

Hezi Dean, 29, had himself sealed into a specially constructed transparent ice cube in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, where he apparently stayed for nearly three days wearing just jeans and a thin T-shirt.
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   At the stroke of the New Year, assistants cut open the ice block and removed a weak-looking Dean, taking him straight to a waiting ambulance, according to an AFP photographer.

Some 200 onlookers celebrated the arrival of the new decade with Dean, many of the them carrying signs -- from the encouraging "Hezi the great," to the more practical "Don't die Hezi Dean."

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Twenty-nine-year old, Hezi Dean from Israel, stands inside ice blocks / AFP ( enlarge photo )

  In 2000, American magician David Blaine spent 63 hours in an ice cube above New York's Times Square. The stunt was called " Frozen in Time " and tubes supplied Blaine with air and water, while another removed his urine.
    In a documentary that followed the act, Blaine said he could not walk for a month and had no plans to ever perform a feat of the same difficulty again.

 The previous Guinness world record for the Longest time spent in a sub-zero ice cube was set by American magician David Blaine , who spent 58 hours in an ice cube in 2000 in New York's Times Square.