2005 Karim Diab Cold Water Immersion

Posted on June 6, 2008

Recently some old photos of Karim Diab (described, perhaps inaccurately as a Russian David Blaine, in part due to doing a 48-day fast in a sealed chamber) were posted to EnglishRussia, showing him doing a one-hour immersion in the cold water of a hole in the ice of the Moscow River, while being monitored by scientists to examine the effects of the immersion. Apparently afterwards he was pretty out of it and unable to talk, although he did beat the world record. The “MNP” written on his forehead means “Peace”.