Is that “bubble boy”? No it’s Reza ‘Ray’ Baluchi.
After attempting for years the Florida ultramarathon runner and inventor has been trying to combine his passions by getting into a floating bubble contraption and running across the water from his home state, Florida to Bermuda or New York. But he hasn’t quite made it that far.
His latest attempt at the beach on Florida’s east coast on weekend turned into him drifting ashore after a failed attempt to run to either New York or Bermuda.
The Guardian reports that Baluchi was brought back to land after he realized “that some of his safety and navigation equipment had been stolen” and the coast guard were notified of his floating balloon thing’s progress. In his attempt to head North, Baluchi made it only 30 miles south of his starting point.
Over on his YouTube Channel, Baluchi advertised his planned trip to Bermuda last September with an early ‘00s-style video (watch above). In it, spy movie graphics and dramatic military music are overlaid on clips of him running in his floating hamster ball, a rotating view of the Earth from space, and snippets of text like, “Run With Reza,” “Greatest Guinness World Records Most Dangerous Place In World,” “It’s Happen Soon Travel To Bermuda,” and “Lorem Ipsum Has Been The Industry’s Standard Dummy Text Ever Since The 1500s.”
Never give up, Baluchi.
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