Video Fix: David Blaine for Adam Kimmel

Look Ma, no special effects! For David Blaine’s latest death-defying stunt, a short film for Adam Kimmel, the magician dove into shark-infested waters 180 miles off the Baja coast, where it took 24 hours to travel by boat. In the film, Dressed for Dinner, he wears head-to-toe Kimmel while swimming with the great whites, some as long as 20 feet. Unfazed by potentially being a primordial predator’s lunch, Blaine plays cool, munching on a banana underwater and smoking a cigar (how did he do that?), even startling a shark with a poke on its tail fin…

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