Although he may have impressed some in the past few years with his television specials, illusionist and stunt performer David Blaine officially has permission to retire.

At the young age of four, Blaine witnessed a magician performing a card trick and has loved magic ever since. During his teen years, Blaine began acting classes, and has even starred in commercials and soap operas, but never forgot his dream of becoming a top performer.

Unfortunately, once Blaine had gained super stardom in the late nineties with his inventive tricks on his “Street Magic” TV specials, he set them aside to try and “wow” us with his not-so-thrilling stunts. Sadly, he hasn’t stopped yet.

With his latest stunt last week, “Dive of Death,” Blaine was suspended upside down in a harness above Central Park for 60 hours. The stunt, which sounded dull to begin with, ended as his performances always do, with an overly hyped televised conclusion that left us feeling unimpressed…again.

Spectators reported seeing Blaine standing upright on a waiting crane several times (he was instructed to have a medical check-up every hour, along with food and urination breaks) taking away from intensity of the stunt. The ending was also lackluster, when Blaine was simply lowered onto a stage and detached from the harness. He was originally supposed to be pulled up into the air by helium balloons and vanish into the night sky, however, things went awry. That’s a “Dive of Death?” Not even close.

Blaine began to lose respect from viewers after his previous stunt, when he was fully submerged in a sphere of water in downtown Manhattan and claimed he would end the television special by holding his breath for over 8 minutes and 59 seconds to beat the world record. After hours of waiting, fans were disappointed to see a pruned David Blaine struggle for oxygen, be pulled from the water prematurely and rushed to the hospital. He was only able to reach a time of 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Blaine did claim later that he was still able to break the record for being submerged in water longer than any other human being ever, but the stunt is still unrecognized by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Perhaps Blaine should have stuck to the street magic instead of trying to impress us with meaningless stunts that have produced nothing more than a longer list of hospital visits.

Maybe Blaine could do us all a favor and perform one last trick: disappear.