Wet weather and hydroplaning wheels are believed to have been the cause of a horrific, fiery crash.

High powered boat engine on lake dock / mechanic working on boat engine, using wrench / Harrah's Club U3 hydrofoil coasting through lake water, pulling into slip / Roostertail hydrofoil loaded onto trailer / crew working on U3 hydro in...

Title card: "RUTH ELDER RIDES WAVES INSTEAD OF SKY" / MCU SOT Ruth Elder at the wheel of hydroplane motor boat with mechanic prior to race / LS boats speed off at beginning of race/ MCU Elder at the wheel of her boat during race,...

Title card: "Homemade hydro-boat thrills boy builder in sensational trial - Eddie, 18 (on left) and Albert Cattadoris, 16, tell all about new marvel at North Bay, NY" / two brothers standing in front of boat posing for photo opportunity...

Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 19" / title "Bluebird Sinks - Accident Delays Campbell's Speed Runs" superimposed over craft speeding over Lake Mead / Bluebird being rolled into water on trailer, people gathered by water, parked...

Title: "Slo-Mo-Shun Sets Speedboat Record. Seattle - Fastest Man Has Traveled on Water!" superimposed over speed boat passing / MS boat at dock, men working on motor / CU men working on boat motor / VS CU Stanley S. Sayres, Seattle auto...

MS WS PAN Mail hydroplane landing on river in the Far North (region of the Evenks, also formerly known as Tungus) to show how petitions are signed throughout the country in the most remote places / Russia, AUDIO

Sea background; hydrofoil moving along the coast

Wake of a ship background

Wake of a ship in the blue sea (background)

Wake of a ship leaving +· small harbor

Wake of ship leaving a small harbor in Sicily

Wake of a ship background

Sea background from a boat and its wake

Wake of a ship background

Wake of a ship background

Hydrofoil boats racing across lake / crowd standing in water, some jumping and cheering while watching race / two antique, vintage biplane airplanes flying in tandem low to water / bright yellow P38 Lightning prop fighter plane flying...

/ speed boats race across Lake Wampatuck / CU of individual boat drivers / boats flip on the turn / crowd watches from the river bank using binoculars / CU winner James Howell. 8th Annual Lake Wampatuck Regatta on May 10, 1962 in Hanson,...

Wake of a ship background

Crew working on Miss ORing U8 hydrofoil docked in slip at lake / crane, boats, dock, slips on lake / Miss Eagle Electric U25 hydrofoil being lowered into water via crane; pilot donning gloves, boarding craft, pulling away from dock /...

CGI rendering showing they physics and mechanics of how a hydroplane works

Russian military hydroplanes

Russian military hydroplanes

VS crowd watches Miss Syndicate win the Detroit Sweepstakes Race on the Detroit River/ CU boat's owner Horace Dodge and his brother John