The Boy In The Plastic (Water-Filled) Bubble

It has been awhile, but my favorite Magic Man, David Blaine is at it again.

The 33-year-old magician will perform his newest stunt in front of New York's Lincoln Center living underwater for seven days and nights in a "human aquarium", a specially built 8-foot acrylic sphere. He will receive liquid nutrition through a tube and the water will be kept at a balanced temperature to help keep his core temperature close to 98.6 degrees.

To prepare for the challenge, Blaine has been training with US Navy Seals and a world class free-diving team.

Passersby will be able to touch the aquarium, take pictures with Blaine and communicate with him. He enters the sphere on May 1.

He will conclude this week-long submersion on May 8 by attempting to hold his breath underwater longer than the current record of 8 minutes, 58 seconds.

In 1999's Premature Burial, Blaine spent seven days buried inside a glass coffin at the bottom of an open pit in front of an office building owned by Donald Trump in New York City where passersby could view him 24 hours a day.

In 2000, Blaine performed Frozen in Time, in which he was encased in ice for 61 hours, 40 minutes, and 15 seconds in Times Square, New York before being removed. He was taken to the hospital immediately after being removed because doctors feared he was going into shock. He says he still could not walk normally a month after the stunt.

Vertigo was performed in 2002. Blaine was lifted by crane onto a 100-foot high pillar in Bryant Park, New York. He stood on the 22-inch wide pillar for nearly 35 hours without food, water or anything to lean on.

In 2003, Blaine performed Above The Below, a 44-day endurance stunt which found him sealed inside a transparent case measuring 7 feet by 7 feet by 3 feet suspended 30 feet in the air over Potters Fields Park on the south bank of the River Thames in London. During this period Blaine reportedly received no food and only water.