All language subtitles for David Blaine Do Not Attempt S01 E04_track3_[eng]

[David Blaine] Growing up
I never felt like I fit in.

I wasn't the fastest
or the strongest.

But I found a skill that
set me apart... endurance.

It all began with extreme cold.

This became my
lifelong obsession.

To discover things
that seem impossible,

magical, death-defying.

[thud]

[thud]

I'm traveling to
the Arctic Circle in

the middle of winter.

This is Lapland where
Finland meets Norway,

Sweden, and Russia.

It's a punishing environment.

During this time of the year,

temperatures can drop to
negative 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

It's sparsely populated.

And in this part of the world,

there are more
reindeer than people.

- One, two, three.

[♪ upbeat music playing]

[David Blaine] It's
an unusual place to go

searching for magic.

In this snow-covered wilderness.

It's what you would
imagine the ultimate winter

wonderland to be.

But I'm on a search
for people who endure this

freezing environment to
perform superhuman feats.

[screams]

- All right. Don't die!

Yeah!

[♪ intense music playing]

[thud]

Oh, yeah!

[Ken screams victoriously]

[David Blaine] Oh! Damn!

- That was good.

- Oh my God!

- That was so fun.

- What?! Whoa!

- I look up at like
1,000 feet of just flat rock

with snowy tops,
and it's just so mighty,

and I feel stronger every time.

[screams]

[David Blaine] Ken has been
called the last Viking on earth.

[Ken Stornes] I draw my
power from the Vikings.

They would scream
their way into battle.

They would run towards
death without fear.

[thud]

Wooo-hooo!

[David Blaine] He’s from
Norway where the "Death Dive"

was created.

- A Norwegian death dive,

it looks like you are going
to land flat on your stomach.

But in the last millisecond,

you tuck in and
protect yourself.

[David Blaine] In 2023,
Ken broke the world record

for the highest
death dive when he jumped

132 feet into a fjord.

- The hard thing for
that jump was definitely

the mental barriers
because it's,

it's high enough to
definitely kill you.

You have to be OK
with the outcome.

Did my first, like,
backflip on the ground,

when I was 15,
around then.

- And then did you
have dive training?

- No, that was
something we did,

like a result of
many years of gym,

like doing tricking and
parkour and gymnastics and then

it just like evolved.

[David Blaine] Ken
transforms the landscape into

his own playground.

- This is the ancient art
of getting to know

the snow before you
jump in it, you know?

You got to befriend the snow
so it doesn't hurt us tomorrow.

It's been something we've,
like, made jokes about.

But I kind of feel
it's true, too.

I feel like to get to know
the snow and

get to know the
nature and pay respects.

You ready for this?

- Yes.
- Let’s go!

[♪ triumphant music playing

Richard Wagner
"Ride of the Valkyries"]

[snowmobile approaching]

[David Blaine] We found an
area with high cliffs and

enough snowfall for
Ken to teach me a bit of

his jumping techniques.

- No rocks. Should be good.
- Yeah?

- Make sure
your face is protected.

You wanna use your
elbows to shoot in.

When you feel
like you’re flying,

try to meet the ground.

- Yeah.

- Meet the ground and smack it.

[David Blaine] When I get
up to the top it actually

looks and feels much higher.

And for Ken, this isn't
even a warm-up jump.

I suddenly understand
how much mental discipline

his jumps demand.

[Ken Stornes] 3, 2, 1. Go!

[thud and grunt]

[♪ inquisitive music playing]

You good?

[David Blaine] Yeah,
I took a neck shot.

I'm just kidding.

- There's one more thing
I want you to see.

- This is crazy.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[splash]

Whoa!

[Ken screams victoriously]

Watching you, that's
something I really respect.

That, like,
commitment to one idea.

Magic is that.

Cause everything
else disappears.

- Yeah, like you have
to know the risk and

you have to feel the fear.

- Yeah.
- But before it’s like,

you just have to
remove every like,

limitations in your mind.

To be able to overcome it.

- Yeah.

Ken's right.

It's important to understand
the risks and be prepared.

For my first
televised stunt, I wasn't.

I failed on live TV when I
tried to remain encased

in a block of ice for three
days and three nights.

It started with the initial
idea of I just love how ice

looks and then I started
thinking what if,

what if I can be inside of it?

I committed to doing it in the
most public place possible.

I wanted to break myself
out of the ice at the end.

But at 63 hours my safety team
ended the stunt early

because I was hallucinating
and on the brink of collapse.

[reporter] He’s been
held together by spit and

adrenaline inside...
the adrenaline is now gone.

We gotta make sure he
doesn’t go into shock.

[David Blaine] I was destroyed.

The ice had done more
damage to me than any stunt

that I've ever done.

Being in the
block of ice changed my

outlook on everything.

I pushed my mind and
body to the breaking point.

That failure is what
led me to this search.

For people who are
mentally tough in the

most extreme environments.

Now I'm going to
meet Inka Cagnasso,

a world-class Finnish skydiver.

Watching Inka dance in the sky,

it's easy to forget
the risks involved especially

in this climate.

Wow. Jeez.

That is unbelievable.

[Inka Cagnasso]
When I was a kid,

I went through the dark,

cold winters like
walking to school when

it's like minus 30 Celsius
and you really need to

find a mindset.

You just need to toughen up.

[David Blaine] It takes real
endurance to train for hours on

end in the wind tunnel,

let alone to fly in subzero
temperatures as Inka does.

One of my favorite activities
is jumping out of airplanes.

I've done it more
than 500 times;

the feeling is exhilarating.

But I've never done it in
these freezing conditions,

which makes it much
more dangerous.

Wow.

- Hey.
- Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- How many hours do you have?

- I have like over five and
half thousand hours now.

- Wow!
- Yeah it's a lot.

You ready to play?

[David Blaine] Inka is taking
me on an Arctic skydive,

where I'll experience the
coldest natural environment

that I've ever been in.

But first, she wants to test
our ability to jump together.

Inka's longtime collaborator,
Lauri, is joining us.

- When we’re watching
beautiful videos of skydiving

we don’t see the
part that’s just so important,

which is the camera flyer.

[David Blaine] Lauri’s camera
is strapped to his helmet,

and it's heavier
than a bowling ball.

- Stacking those nine kilos
to your head and then

jumping out of the plane
and going 300 kilometers

towards the ground...

...is a bit nuts.

[wind gusts]

- It's a huge airfield.
- But I see these patches of ice.

- The runway and all the bit,
like, that's very slippery.

[David Blaine] Three years
ago I had a bad landing and

I broke my ankle.

I broke the bone
in multiple places.

Ripped three ligaments and,

I never really
recovered the ankle.

And because of this accident,
I stopped skydiving.

[Inka Cagnasso] I can see that
it's at the back of his head,

like is this going
to happen again?

Am I potentially going
to hurt my ankle again?

[David Blaine] The
longer I didn't skydive,

the more difficult it
has become to get back

into the sport.

But jumping with Inka here
presents a rare and beautiful

opportunity to build
back both my confidence and

push my ability to
tolerate the cold.

But any time you skydive
in freezing temperatures

you need to
consider other risks.

Your equipment is more
likely to malfunction and

your response time is
much slower because the

cold numbs your extremities.

[Inka Cagnasso] Let’s do it!

- Do it!

[David Blaine] We
want to get up in the air

as soon as we can
because the clouds are

starting to come in.

The clouds cover
distorts depth perception

which makes landing
much more dangerous.

[Inka Cagnasso] Woo!

[David Blaine] At 12,000 feet,
the temperatures will drop

to negative 40 degrees.

I've decided to jump in
a T-shirt which will give

me more mobility.

[♪ uplifting music playing]

[Inka Cagnasso] It was so
beautiful above the clouds.

I was having the
time of my life.

David was smiling.

[Lauri Aapro] I have roughly
45 seconds in a free-fall to

capture Inka
doing her magic.

But as I open my parachute
I start having problems.

My goggles are getting fogged.

The clouds and snow are
making it harder to see

how close I am to the ground.

Then when I start
to flare my canopy,

my steering lines are tangled.

I realize that I'm
coming in too fast.

[crash and scrape]

[Lauri groans]

[Inka Cagnasso] I saw
him laying on the ground and

he was not moving for,
like way too long.

[Lauri groans]

I started running.

And thanks, God, I
saw him moving again.

I’ve lost a lot of friends
in this sport and whenever

something like this happens
it’s very triggering.

[David Blaine] Are you OK?

There are so many
unknowns in this sport.

Your chute might not open.

You, your goggles might fog up.

Anything can happen.

- I suffered spinal fractures.

But I am also super grateful
to walk away from it.

- There's a
word in Finnish language

that's called sisu,

which would probably
translate to something like

persistence or stubbornness.

Like you watch me.
I’m going to get it done.

- The doctors asked me
if I'm gonna fly again.

I said, yes, of course.

I just needed to take care
of my mind first and

then build back my body.

[David Blaine] I was so
concerned that he was never

going to fly again because
of his broken back.

But in just a matter of months,
he returned to the wind tunnel.

Lauri is an
incredible example of

perseverance and determination.

-Sisu is a mindset, having
to survive in harsh weather.

Yeah, it toughens you up.

[David Blaine] Christian is
a great magician that I’ve

collaborated with for decades.

He’s invited me to Helsinki
to see some incredible acts

that you can only find here.

[♪ band music playing]

[Christian Engblom]
There's only light,

a few hours per day
during the winter.

So it allows your creativity
to flourish and come up

with new ideas.

- One, two, three, four!

[♪ upbeat music playing]

[Christian Engblom]
I'm taking David to see a

performance taking
place on circular plates of

ice spinning on top of
the frozen Baltic Sea.

It's called an ice carousel.

So if someone were to
ask me what would be unique

about Finnish magic.

These guys.

[♪ upbeat music playing]

[applause]

This is Salla.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

- I feel very alive
when I'm up there.

And I feel like the
audience is with me.

I want the audience to actually
forget the freezing cold.

[Christian Engblom]
Salla isn’t just an aerialist;

she is also one of the
best female ice divers.

[David Blaine] When Salla
unexpectedly drops through the

ice, you can feel the
energy of the crowd shift.

It's as if the audience
is now holding their breath

along with her.

It's what made my favorite
magician, Harry Houdini,

so captivating.

[applause and cheers]

Hi!

- Hi, nice to meet you, David.

- Nice to meet...
That was amazing!

- Thank you!

[announcer] He is fighting it,
he is fighting it.

[David Blaine] When I
attempted the world record

for breathholding, I
started blacking out and

my safety team had to
intervene and rescue me.

Just like they had to when I
was encased in a block of ice.

Watching Salla combine
breathholding and

cold endurance, I want to
see what else she can do.

So she's taking me to a
training camp to introduce

me to her team.

- So what we have here
today is we have the depth ropes

so they can dive down.

[David Blaine] Free diving is
one of the riskiest underwater

sports where you dive without
any breathing apparatus.

But under the ice, it's
exponentially more dangerous.

If you are in 60-degree water,

you can hold your
breath no problem.

Four minutes five
minutes each time.

But when you are in the
Arctic and it's below zero,

it's very easy to blackout.

A wetsuits gives you
insulation and significantly

prolongs the amount of time
that you can spend underwater.

Where else do they even
do this kind of ice diving?

There can't be that many
places in the world.

- No there aren’t really many.

[David Blaine] Miro and
Salla see free diving as

much more than a sport.

- We have basically an
underwater floor

flipped upside down.

- Oh right.
I didn’t even think of that.

You have a surface here.

- We can definitely
show you some of that.

- We can show you. Alright?

- Yep.
- Ten seconds.

- Okay.

[♪ tranquil music playing]

- That looks amazing.

Miro and Salla's
performance is dreamlike.

But it's most
people's nightmare.

To be trapped under
ice with no way out.

- Here the ice is
one meter thick.

So there is no way out if
you don’t find the hole.

You get lost once,
you get lost forever.

- Being trapped under ice is
one of the greatest nightmares.

- How do you feel about it?
- Well, for me, I'm excited.

[laughter]

[wind gusts]

[David Blaine] I want to try
something I've never done,

holding my breath
while under the ice.

So we're headed 600 miles
north to a training ground in

the Arctic Circle.

- It will be nice to go
under for you to see what is,

what it’s like down there,
and how it feels.

[David Blaine] I want
to go under the ice in the

most extreme way possible.

- At first, you're gonna
go with the wetsuit?

- What fun is a wet suit!

- It’s up to you man.

[David Blaine] But they’ve
convinced me to wear a mask

because exposing your
eyes to these temperatures

is very painful.

[Miro Suonpera] We have
the 3-meter cable which

goes around your waist
and we have 3-meter radius

around the rope.

[David Blaine] So
what’s the line for?

[Salla Hakanpaa] You
should be wearing the lanyard.

Something happens to you,
you can lose your grip.

- Anything can happen even
though the distance is small.

Anything can happen actually.

- There are really no
room for mistakes when

you are ice diving.

This afternoon is about
finding David’s limits.

What we want to see
is how he reacts.

Is he panicking?

[David Blaine] Yes,
it's extremely cold and

the environment is
extremely hostile.

But it's so beautiful.

Wow, wow, that's
[bleep] amazing!

In order to do multiple dives
without going into hypothermia,

you need intense heat to bring
your core temperature up.

That is why the sauna is so
critical to this process.

The sauna was
actually created in Finland

more than 1,000 years ago
and it's a key safety

component for
this extreme sport.

As soon as I leave the
sauna I have limited time.

The team created a
safety track 27 feet long

with two exit points.

I'll train to dive from
one opening to the next

without a wetsuit.

- As you are going along
by pulling the rope.

You want to take as long
strokes as possible.

- OK.

- So reach the rope
as far you can.

Pull as slow as you can.

- OK.

- You take the same breathing
techniques as you do before.

- I'll do three first.
- Yeah.

- OK.

They're teaching me how to
conserve oxygen while pulling

my body because with
every single movement,

I'm quickly depleting
my reserves.

- The body uses an
enormous amount of energy.

So the further the coldness,
sort of, gets in...

...the sooner you
get really tired and

it reduces the
breath hold time.

[David Blaine] Once
I understood that I

could do this length,
then I said, okay,

well wait, can we double it?

Okay, can we triple it?

[Miro Suonpera] One good
thing to measure that is the,

is the feelings
inside of your,

uh, body and brain.

If you lose your focus for
just, just a few seconds,

you may get disorientated
and you may not know

that way to go.

So that's the reason
why it's important to stay

focused under there.

A few years back there
was a world record set on

106 meters in ice diving.

I wanted to break
that record.

I knew that that dive
is going to be very,

very close to my limits.

And I knew that it could be
even over, over my limits.

There was some
marks like 25 meters,

50 meters, 75.

87 is the last mark I remember.

[Tommi Pasanen] I
saw him slow down.

And there was a bubble
coming out of his mouth,

which means that he
was blacking out.

I, I started
realizing that, okay,

maybe I will have to catch
him and bring him up.

[overlapping Finnish chatter]

[Miro Suonpera] The
next thing I remember,

I woke up and they were
shouting me to breathe.

[David Blaine] There's a big
difference to holding your

breath the way I’ve done
it my entire life versus

holding it while under ice.

Everything can shut down
quickly and you can

black out within seconds.

- It was intense and because
it was a certain distance

he, he tried.

You will let him try till
the very end that he can.

So at the last minute of
course we bring him up.

You always trust your
life to your friends like.

- Yeah.
- It’s in their hands eventually.

[David Blaine] As I train the
exits continuously freeze over

and the team has to
keep re-cutting the holes.

You cut through this?

- Two hours ago.

- And it’s already
frozen over that quick?

- Yeah.

[David Blaine] What Miro
says gives me an idea.

When I was in the block of ice,

my safety team
had to cut me out.

Now my goal is to
escape on my own.

I'll free dive 90 feet
across to the only exit point

which will be frozen solid.

And this time I'll do it
without wearing a mask.

I'll be trapped under the
ice and will be forced to

break my way out.

When you're under the ice,

trying to break through
this is much more difficult.

Yeah.

[Salla Hakanpaa] What’s
sort of an extra factor in this

is that there’s no
holes in between.

It’s deadly dangerous.

Especially when he’s
not wearing any protective

gear or a mask.

[David Blaine] When I was
in the block of ice I was 27.

I'm now 50 years old.

My body is completely different.

Every single thing that I
do I feel the effects of it

in a way that I've
never felt before.

The distance is 3 times
what I did in training.

I need to conserve every bit
of oxygen so I have enough

reserves to be able to
break out before I black out.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[faint ticking]

[underwater thuds]

[underwater thuds]

[ice cracking]

[underwater thuds]

[ice cracking]

Whatever failures I
experienced from past stunts,

maybe they weren't failures,

maybe they were
supposed to be because

it all led me here.

You guys are amazing!

Meeting these
extraordinary people.

Who through their strength
and persistence create magic!

Who seek out the
most intense moments.

To find a heightened
sense of awareness.

Where everything
becomes clear.

When something's that
challenging or that powerful,

there are no more distractions,

and through that,
you can discover the

beauty around you.

[♪ upbeat music playing]

[♪ upbeat music playing]