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Thats good news!!!

I think the answer as I stated isn't making cats more stable. If your here, your one of us, type A people. We push things.

If you make the cat more stable, Type A people simply add more power and go faster until its unstable again, thats what we do, thats who we are.

What needs to be researched, designed and built is a safety capsule that doesnt blow apart and protects its occupants, Hatches that stay inact, windows that stay intact etc.

You can lock a bunch of rocket scientests and composite engineers in a room until they design a completely stable 250 mph boat. As soon as they leave the room and proclaim "we did it" somebody is going to find a propulsion system to make it go 300mph unleashing a whole new set of problems.Meanwhile the daredevils piloting them are relying on safety systems that are failing at half that speed.

Terrific news that Mike is recovering. I am just amazed that the boat held together so well. On this evidence alone, I wouldn't hesitate to buy an Outerlimits.

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Originally Posted by Marginmn (Post 4176945)

On the LOTO Shootout feed a few minutes ago Bob Teague said that Mike Fiore's wife personally called him and said that as of this morning Mike was conscious and responsive, not in a comma, and while he's not out of woods yet they expect him to recover. Joel is banged up but not seriously injured.

So glad to hear.

Great news!!! Good luck to both !! Hello Mike, Man! What a ride!! Hang in there! Call if you need a airplane or whatever to get home if you can fly without a medical crew. Call me when you can. Jim

Another video of the crash I had not seen. Sorry if its a repost. Good LORD they were up there a LONG time. Long enough to think about what was happening. A good 6 full seconds from oh **** to the hard landing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubukX0ZgtI

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Originally Posted by Mr. Demeanor (Post 4177075)

Unbelievable that anyone could survive that.

Never seen a blowover that BIG even in hydroplane racing.

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Originally Posted by RedDog382 (Post 4176958)

Upside down and stern-first is actually the best possible re-entry in an incident like this. Final upright position also could not be more fortunate. Any sudden deceleration facing forward at this speed could result in a ruptured aorta and sudden death, as well as significant cervical spine injury. Sideways impact would also be devastating at this speed. Looks like the rescue teams did a great job getting the crew out.

Thoughts and prayer to all involved.

Although this may be correct for the human body, unfortunately this is not true for the boat around that human body. Remember who died a few years ago when their boat went in like that at Key West. The force of all that water coming in from behind blew out the bulkheads behind the crew compartment - leading to a fatality.

The plain and simple fact is that surviving a crash (in a boat) at over 150 MPH is doubtful at best. And that would be in a full race boat. Note that virtually all of the windows were blown out of the OL in this crash - because the really big impact was the next to the last hit - on the side. The last hit was when the boat flipped (fortunately) flipped upright.

shouldnt matter which way the boat hits the water or how fast. THe canopy shouldnt give, the windows shouldn't blow out.

Thoughts and prayers go out to the guys and their families. I am glad to hear good news that they are doing better and expected to recover!