The title exuded a certain pessimism: "David Blaine: Drowned Alive." On a live television special last night, Mr. Blaine, the obscurity-averse practitioner of spectacle, ended a weeklong submersion in 2,000 gallons of 96-degree saltwater, providing as the finale an attempt to break through chains while holding his breath for nine minutes. Would he survive, or would the world, as he put it in an interview before diving in, "see something pretty insane?"
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