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US daredevil suspends himself over Thames River without food for six weeks

US illusionist David Blaine, a self-styled modern-day Houdini, started his bizarre quest to spend 44 days and nights suspended over London's river Thames with nothing but water to sustain him. The madcap New-Yorker is planning to live for six weeks in a plastic box measuring seven feet deep, seven feet long and three feet wide, with no distraction, communication or food.

Blaine, 30, entered his tiny temporary home suspended over the Thames at 9:27 pm and is not now due to emerge until Sunday October 19 at 9:00 p.m.

"I'm not worried about the first three weeks, I'm worried about the second half of this when I start to lose my mind and everything gets really bad," Blaine said shortly before entering the box.

Up to 4,000 people turned out to see Blaine begin his gruelling challenge.

The showman took a photograph of his late mother into the box with him for inspiration.

"I am just pushing myself to be the most that I can. That's all I can be," Blaine said.

Doctor Adam Carey, who carried out a physical examination of Blaine just moments before he stepped into the box, said: "From a medical point of view, I cannot condone it.

"From a personal point of view I think he's nuts." AFP

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