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translation services Tragedy visited Key West yesterday. Two men died on the opening day of the powerboat races. Missouri's Jeffery Tillman and Robert Morgan were driver and throttle man of the Big Thunder entry in the super-boat unlimited class. They had completed the first turn and were in Key West Harbor in front of Mallory Square. The boat caught air. The boat lost contact with the water. Tillman and Morgan lost control of the boat. The boat flipped vertically upwards. Then came down topside first. Tillman and Morgan were killed. The viewing crowds' reaction was simple and swift. Cheers as the boat made the turn and was before them. A loud gasp as the boat shot vertically upward. Then dead silence. The picture of the Big Thunder in it's vertical position was not taken by me. It appeared in the Key West Citizen's internet report of the accident last … Read More →