"per hour () in ""Blue Bird K4"". Between 1956 and 1959 Sir Malcolm's son Donald Campbell set four successive records on the lake in ""Bluebird K7"", a hydroplane. In 1966 Donald Campbell decided that he needed to exceed 300 miles per hour (483 km/h) in order to retain the record. On 4 January 1967, he achieved a top speed of over 320 miles per hour () in ""Bluebird K7"" on the return leg of a record-breaking attempt. He then lost control of ""Bluebird"", which somersaulted and crashed, sinking rapidly. Campbell was killed instantly on impact when decapitated by the K7's"
"Edgar Culbertson Edgar A. ""Ed"" Culbertson was a United States Coast Guard Boatswain's Mate First Class (BM1) who died April 30, 1967 while trying to rescue three teenage brothers during a fierce storm in Duluth, Minnesota. Meteorologists and Minnesota residents often refer to April 30, 1967 as ""Black Sunday,"" describing the 1967 Iowa–Minnesota tornado outbreak and heavy wind and rain in Duluth. During the storm, waves on Lake Superior in Duluth were reportedly over 20 feet high with water temperature around 36 degrees. Gale force winds gusted to 45 mph. Around 7:45 p.m., a witness reported to the Duluth Police"
"Guard announced that it planned to name its 37th Sentinel class cutter the USCGC ""Edgar Culbertson"". Edgar Culbertson Edgar A. ""Ed"" Culbertson was a United States Coast Guard Boatswain's Mate First Class (BM1) who died April 30, 1967 while trying to rescue three teenage brothers during a fierce storm in Duluth, Minnesota. Meteorologists and Minnesota residents often refer to April 30, 1967 as ""Black Sunday,"" describing the 1967 Iowa–Minnesota tornado outbreak and heavy wind and rain in Duluth. During the storm, waves on Lake Superior in Duluth were reportedly over 20 feet high with water temperature around 36 degrees. Gale"
"157mph. K7 was exhibited at the Bute Highland games on 11 August 2011 and participated in the massed pipe band procession through the town of Rothesay. Donald Campbell Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 March 19214 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston Water in the Lake District, England. Donald Campbell was born at Canbury"
"Donald Campbell Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 March 19214 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston Water in the Lake District, England. Donald Campbell was born at Canbury House, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 1930s in the"
"Henry Segrave Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave (22 September 1896 – 13 June 1930) was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold both titles simultaneously and the first person to travel at over in a land vehicle. He died in an accident in 1930 shortly after setting a new world water speed record on Windermere in the Lake District, England. The Segrave Trophy was established to commemorate his life. Segrave, who was a British national, was born on 22 September"
"Samuel Gilbert Scott Samuel Gilbert ""Sam"" Scott (c. 1813 – January 11, 1841) was an American daredevil who was killed performing a stunt at Waterloo Bridge in London, England. Scott was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served in the United States Navy, where he became well known for jumping off the masts of Navy vessels. Upon leaving the Navy he became a professional stuntman, passing the hat for contributions after his performances. Scott performed stunts in Boston, Massachusetts, Philadelphia and on the St. Lawrence River. He dived from a precipice near Niagara Falls, reported in newspapers as a 593-foot jump,"
"the 1950s. He died attempting to break the world water speed record for the eighth time in 1967, when his jet boat, ""Bluebird K7"", crashed at , having already set the record for the seventh time at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia in 1964. His body and boat (""Bluebird K7"") were discovered and recovered by divers in 2001 and he was buried in the new graveyard in Coniston in September 2001. A new wing has been built at the Ruskin Museum to accommodate the fully restored Bluebird K7 boat. It opened in late 2009 with the K7 due to arrive in"
"a loud scream from Osman followed by a crash resembling a tree breaking in half. Dan Osman Daniel Eugene Osman (February 11, 1963 – November 23, 1998) was an American extreme sport practitioner, known for the dangerous sports of free-soloing, rock climbing without ropes or other safety gear. He participated in rope free-flying or rope jumping, falling several hundred feet from a cliff then being caught by a safety rope, for which his record was over . He lived a bohemian lifestyle, working as a part-time carpenter and living in Lake Tahoe, California. He was the subject of several rock"
"was found near Parma on July 21, 2006. Police suspect the murder may be related to a business deal and three suspects have been arrested. Gianmario Roveraro Gianmario Roveraro (24 May 1936 - 5 July 2006) was an Italian high jumper, who was the first Italian athlete over 2 metres barrier, than banker, who founded Akros Finanziaria. As a young man he was a brilliant sportsman. He was national champion in high jump on three occasions (1954, 1955, 1956), improving to three times the record of Italian specialties, the first Italian over 2.00 m, he participated in the 1956 Summer"
"interred at Green Acres Memorial Park in Scottsdale. <br> <br> Buster Crabbe Clarence Linden Crabbe II (; February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983), commonly known by his stage name Buster Crabbe, was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and movie actor. He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-meter freestyle swimming event, which launched his career onto the silver screen. He starred in a number of popular films in the 1930s and 1940s. He also played the title role in the serials ""Tarzan the Fearless"", ""Flash Gordon"", and ""Buck Rogers"". Crabbe is the only actor to have played Tarzan,"
"5 at the time of his death. post-mortem: post-mortem: Douglas C. Gordon Douglas Cameron Gordon, commonly known as Doug Gordon, (1956 – October 16, 1998) was an American whitewater kayaker, who was a member of the U.S. Slalom Team from 1981 to 1987, and a chemist. Gordon died in Eastern Tibet when he and three other paddlers attempted the first descent of the Tsangpo River. Gordon was a member of the U.S. Slalom Team from 1981 to 1987. He obtained several medals from the National Championships and qualified four times for the Whitewater Slalom World Championships. In 1995 and 1996,"
"age of 52 on 29 September 1952 whilst attempting to break the world Water Speed Record at Loch Ness in Scotland, piloting the jet engine-powered speedboat ""Crusader"" at a speed in excess of . During the run the speedboat hit an unexplained wake in the water and disintegrated about Cobb, killing him instantly. His body, which had been thrown 50 yards beyond the wreckage by the vehicle's stalled momentum, was recovered from the loch and conveyed back to his home county of Surrey, where it was buried in the graveyard of Christ Church, Esher. A memorial was subsequently erected on"
"inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an ""Honor Swimmer"" in 1976. Robie died at the age of 66 on November 29, 2011. <br> <br> Carl Robie Carl Joseph Robie III (May 12, 1945 – November 29, 2011) was an American swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Robie received a silver medal for his second-place finish in the men's 200-meter butterfly. Four years later at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, he won a gold medal for winning the men's 200-meter butterfly. Robie broke the world record in"
"gold medal in the 4×110 yards competition. Arthur Sweeney Arthur Wellington Sweeney (20 May 1909 – 27 December 1940) was an English athlete who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and was killed in a flying accident in Takoradi, Gold Coast. In 1936 he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 100 metres event and in the first round of the 200 metres competition. At the 1934 Empire Games he won the gold medal in the 100 yards contest and in the 220 yards event. He was also a member of"
"in Moraga, California. He was survived by his wife of 50 years, Susan, daughters Karen and Kristen, son Michael, and daughter-in-law Karen. He also had a brother Robert. George Harrison (swimmer) George Prifold Harrison (April 9, 1939 – October 3, 2011) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he received a gold medal as the lead-off swimmer of the winning U.S. team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Harrison, together with his American relay teammates Dick Blick, Mike Troy and Jeff Farrell, set a"
"Roy Fransen Royston Albert Fransen (born 4 January 1916 in Tottenham, north London, England died July 5, 1985) was a British High Diver and Stuntman. He was best known for his public displays of high and acrobatic diving, usually into shallow depth tanks and pools. These high dives were often performed with both diver and water surface being set ablaze with burning petrol. Roy Fransen's professional high and fire diving career lasted over 40 years - until his accident and death in 1985 during a performance, when aged 69. His 1948 record high-dive, from a height of 110 feet into"
"daredevil feat. Sadly, on July 5, 1985, during a public performance in South West London, Roy Fransen died whilst attempting his Dive of Death for the final time. He was then age 69, and remained a very fit man for his years. Roy Fransen Royston Albert Fransen (born 4 January 1916 in Tottenham, north London, England died July 5, 1985) was a British High Diver and Stuntman. He was best known for his public displays of high and acrobatic diving, usually into shallow depth tanks and pools. These high dives were often performed with both diver and water surface being"
"win the two most important trophies and set the world speed record in one year. Sayres died of a heart attack in 1956. The Stanley Sayres Memorial Park in Seattle is named after him. Stanley Sayres Stanley St. Claire Sayres (1896 - 17 September 1956) was a hydroplane racer who broke the world water speed record with his ""Slo-mo-shun IV"" boat. Stanley Sayres was born in Dayton, Washington in 1896, and studied in Walla Walla, Washington at the Whitman College. He entered the army in 1917. After World War I, he ran his own car dealerships in Walla Walla and"
"Garfield Wood Garfield Arthur ""Gar"" Wood (December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and championship motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 miles per hour on water. Gar Wood was born on December 4, 1880 in Mapleton, Iowa, into a family of 13 children. His father was a ferryboat operator on Lake Osakis, Minnesota, and Gar worked on boats from an early age. In 1911, at age 31, he invented a hydraulic lift for unloading coal from rail trucks."
"George Harrison (swimmer) George Prifold Harrison (April 9, 1939 – October 3, 2011) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he received a gold medal as the lead-off swimmer of the winning U.S. team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Harrison, together with his American relay teammates Dick Blick, Mike Troy and Jeff Farrell, set a new world record of 8:10.2 in the event final. Individually Harrison won a silver medal in the 400-meter freestyle at the 1959 Pan American Games. He also held"
"the 600-foot (180m) Fogher Cliff (Lat 51.9236; Long −10.3556) just west of Valentia Coast Guard Station in County Kerry, Ireland. A coastal search was immediately undertaken by the nearby Coast Guard lifeboat, a rescue helicopter, cliff rescue teams and local people, who searched unsuccessfully. His body was never recovered. Michael Reardon (climber) Michael Reardon (May 1, 1965 – July 13, 2007) was an American professional free solo climber, filmmaker, motivational speaker and writer. Reardon, at age 42, perished after being swept to sea by a rogue wave, shortly after climbing a sea cliff at Dohilla in County Kerry, Ireland. Michael"
"Sir Henry Segrave's twin-engined water speed record boat ""Miss England II"", this craft being ready for trials on Windermere by June 1930. On Friday 13 June, Segrave was fatally injured and a Rolls-Royce technical advisor, Victor Halliwell, was killed when ""Miss England II"" capsized at high speed after possibly hitting a log. Shortly before his death Segrave learnt that he had set a new water speed record of just under 100 mph (160 km/h). On 18 July 1932, Kaye Don set a new world water speed record of on Loch Lomond in a new boat, ""Miss England III"", which also"
"Keith Brubaker Keith M. Brubaker was a member of the United States Coast Guard who lost his life in service to his country in 1967. Coast Guardsman - Engineman Third Class (EN3) Keith Michael Brubaker, 22, of Warren, Michigan, born March 24, 1945 lost his life on July 11, 1967 while in service to his country when he fell overboard a Coast Guard boat in Grand Marais, Minnesota and drowned. He is only the second Coast Guard member in Minnesota or on Lake Superior to be killed in service to his country, the other being Edgar Culbertson in Duluth, Minnesota."
"1939 on Coniston Water, Lancashire, at 141.740 mph (228.108 km/h or 123.168 kn). After World War II, Sir Malcolm unsuccessfully re-engined K4 with a de Havilland Goblin turbojet engine but did not gain any records. The new superstructure did gain the nickname "" 'The Coniston Slipper' "". Donald Campbell (Malcolm's son) had not previously attempted record-breaking, but after Sir Malcolm's death at the end of 1948, the threat of an American challenge to his water speed record spurred him to defend it. Under the terms of his will, Sir Malcolm's possessions, including the record breakers, were auctioned off and Donald"
"died of a heart attack while rowing on Lake Washington. Rusty Wailes Richard ""Rusty"" Donald Wailes, a.k.a. ""Perfect Oarsman"" (March 21, 1936 in Edmonds, Washington – October 11, 2002 on Lake Washington) was an American rower. Wailes began sport rowing when he entered Yale University in the fall of 1954. Within two years he was part of the gold medal-winning eight-man U.S. team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Wailes and his Yale teammates represented the United States in the 1956 Olympic team after defeating other collegiate teams in the eight-man Olympic trial. At the Olympic trials Wailes and"
"canoe capsized under high winds at Strawberry Reservoir, Utah. He drowned in the accident. Paul was married for 27 years to Debra Gaye Anhder. They were the parents of four children; Heidi, Scott, Holly and Kelly. He is interred at the Lehi City Cemetery, Lehi, Utah. Paul Cummings Paul Richard Cummings (5 September 1953 – 17 September 2001) was a world-class middle and long distance runner who ran competitively from the 1,500 meters to the marathon, breaking several American records and one world record. His ability to have a middle distance runner's kick and also have the stamina to compete"
"He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1990. Garfield Wood Garfield Arthur ""Gar"" Wood (December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and championship motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 miles per hour on water. Gar Wood was born on December 4, 1880 in Mapleton, Iowa, into a family of 13 children. His father was a ferryboat operator on Lake Osakis, Minnesota, and Gar worked on boats from an early age. In 1911, at"
"the new FIM World Championship, Drinkwater collided with a bank trying to avoid a fellow competitor near Cronk Bane farm, close to the 11th milestone marker post, and was killed. The distinctive S-bend corner on the Mountain Course near to the accident location was renamed ""Drinkwater's Bend"" or the 11th Milestone. Ben Drinkwater Ben Drinkwater (Reuben Thomas Drinkwater, 13 February 1910 – 9 June 1949) born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, was a railway signalman and motorcycle racer who competed in the Isle of Man TT races and the Manx Grand Prix. After riding in the 1946 Manx Grand Prix, the"
"Richard R. Callahan Coast Guardsman - Boatswain Mate Second Class (BM2) Richard R. Callahan of Cicero, Illinois was awarded the Coast Guard Medal for heroic life saving actions along with two comrades. Boatswain Mate First Class (BM1) Edgar Culbertson, 32, of Ferndale, Michigan lost his life on April 30, 1967 while trying to rescue three teenagers in Duluth, Minnesota. Three teenage boys had been seen on the north pier break wall of the Duluth entry during a horrific storm. Meteorologist and Minnesota residents often refer to this day as Black Sunday describing the fierce 1967 Southern Minnesota tornado outbreak, with"
"Joseph Ray Hodgson Joseph Ray Hodgson (3 October 1829—-15 October 1908) was an Englishman hailed as a hero dozens of times after risking his life to save people from drowning, often during a winter storm in the North Sea. He was nicknamed The Stormy Petrel, after the seabirds, because whenever a gale blew up, he could be seen on Sunderland pier searching the skyline for ships in distress in order that he might help. Hodgson was living and working in Sunderland at the same time as the diver, Harry Watts, who was equally famed for saving lives. Hodgson is commemorated"
"Alex Harris (swimmer) Alex James Harris (3 January 1975 – 27 October 2009) was an Australian Paralympic swimmer, who represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens. Harris was born in Geelong, Victoria, and attended Western Heights College where he was a champion sportsman and school captain. In 1993, aged 18, he was involved in a traffic collision at Breamlea when the car in which Harris and several friends were travelling was struck by another vehicle. One of the car's occupants was killed, and Harris was pulled from the car by a"
"at an estimated speed of 140-150 mph. The car sailed in the air, breaking in half upon impact: Marriott was injured and did not make another attempt to break the record after he recovered. Marriott's mark for the steam land speed record, which had become the longest-standing such record, was finally broken more than 100 years later in August 2009 when Charles Burnett III of the British ""Inspiration"" team recorded an average speed of 139.843 mph (225.06 km/h) at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Fred Marriott Fred Marriott (31 December 1872, Needham, Massachusetts - 28 April 1956) was an"