Speed was Donald Campbell's oxygen. He spent his entire life chasing land and water speed records, obsessively trying to outdo the achievements of his father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, who had set records in his own legendary Bluebird cars and boats. Born on March 23, 1921, in Kingston upon Thames, the younger Campbell broke eight world speed records between 1955 and 1964, an accomplishment no one has matched since. He remains the only person to set both land and water speed records in the same calendar year, achieving both in 1964 in Australia. The land record was 403.10 mph at Lake Eyre; the water record was 276.33 mph on Lake Dumbleyung in Western Australia. But Campbell wanted 300 mph on water. On January 4, 1967, on Coniston Water in the English Lake District, his jet-powered Bluebird K7 hydroplane reached an estimated 328 mph on the first run of a required two-way average pass. On the return run, the boat's nose lifted, somersaulted end over end, and disintegrated on impact with the water. Campbell was killed instantly. His last words, recorded by onboard radio, were calm and matter-of-fact as the boat began to lift: "She's tramping... I can't see much... the water's very dark... I'm getting a lot of bloody row in here... I can't see anything... I've got the bows up..." Then silence. His body was not recovered until 2001, 34 years after the crash, when divers located the wreck at the bottom of the lake. He was buried in the churchyard at Coniston village, within sight of the water that killed him.