Traveling across a lake in Northern Italy, the boat was going fast at 190 mph (306 kph) , but ultimately became unstable and the pilots lost control of it.
The first casualty in pursuit of the record was perhaps the ironically named Englishman Sir Henry Seagrave, who in 1930 set the world record at 99 mph (159 kph).
They looked whipped by wind, and for good reason — Sustained wind speeds in Neptune's atmosphere have been clocked at over 2000 kph: Faster than the speed of sound on Earth!
An Englishman named John Cobb wanted to be the first person to break the 200 mph (320 kph) speed barrier and built a jet-powered boat called Crusader to do it.
They can accelerate to speeds of 47 mph or 75 kph in less than 2 seconds, and may reach top speeds of 75 miles or 120 kilometers per hour, although they cannot maintain these incredible speeds for long.