David Blaine: Drowned Alive

Dr. Ruden, Physician to the Stars, is concerned about David’s skin, among many other things. The hands, of course, but now the rest of him, too. The palms of the hands, he explains, are hyperkeratotic tissue: the cell turnover is very fast. Born, live, die fast. There are a lot of dead cells on the palms, and dead cells don’t give a fig about homeostasis. They get jerked around by whatever the environment throws at them, and when it’s immersion in water the prune effect is the result.