American showman David Blaine's efforts to push his physical boundaries know no limits. Not content with being buried alive for a week, standing on top of a 27-metre high pole for 35 hours and going 44 days encased 'above the below' without food in London, he's now broken the world record for holding your breath under water, with an incredible time of 17 minutes, 4.4 seconds.

Blaine's next stunt will be an attempt to break the world record for sleep deprivation, which currently stands at 11.5 days.

He just never tires of it, eh?

Check out Blaine breaking the under water record on Oprah's show

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can he dry finge.....

wow
That guy amazes me...

Just the fact of how far the human body can be pushed.

i no a lot of people who think he a freak and juse weired but some of the stuff he does is unbelivable good on him

He is totally nuts but ya gotta give him credit for some of the stuff that he does, 17 mins - amazing!

would like to see sparkie hold his breath for 17 mins! saw him when he did his stunt in london, gave us a wave too!

what stunt did sparkie do in london?