Editing David Blaine (section)

===''Buried Alive'' (1999)===
On April 5, 1999, Blaine was entombed in an underground plastic box underneath a 3-ton water-filled tank for seven days, across from [[Trump Place]] on 68th St. and Riverside Boulevard, as part of a stunt titled "Buried Alive".<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 6, 2022 |title=David Blaine explains why he chose to be buried in coffin for 7 days with no food |url=https://www.ladbible.com/news/david-blaine-buried-alive-7-days-20221006 |access-date=June 12, 2024 |website=LADbible |language=en |archive-date=June 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612092652/https://www.ladbible.com/news/david-blaine-buried-alive-7-days-20221006 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On the final day of the stunt, April 12, hundreds of news teams were stationed at the site for the coffin opening. A team of construction workers removed a portion of the {{convert|75|cuft|m3}} of gravel surrounding the {{convert|6|ft|m|abbr=off|adj=on}} deep coffin before a crane lifted the water tank.<ref name="deep">{{Cite web |last=Breen |first=Virginia |date=April 6, 1999 |title=Magician is in deep for week-long stunt |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/1999/04/06/magician-is-in-deep-for-week-long-stunt/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |work=[[New York Daily News]]}}</ref> Blaine emerged and 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."<ref name=burial>[http://www.cnn.com/US/9904/12/buried.alive.02/index.html?iref=newssearch Magician surfaces from watery grave after weeklong burial] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605233047/http://www.cnn.com/US/9904/12/buried.alive.02/index.html?iref=newssearch |date=June 5, 2008 }}, [[CNN]], April 12, 1999</ref> BBC News stated, "The 26-year-old magician has outdone his hero, [[Harry Houdini]], who had planned a similar feat but died in 1926 before he could perform it."<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/317532.stm Americas Magician emerges from grave], [[BBC News]], April 12, 1999</ref>