Stuart,
I seem to remember watching a dramatised tv documentry about this which gave the impression that he knew things were going to go wrong in a big way I can recall seeing the headlines in all the papers and the tv news and if memory serves all they found at the time was one shoe and a teddy

.....I must be older than i thought

Yes it was called Across The Lake, Starring Anthony Hopkins as Donald Campbell televised in 1987 on the BBC.

I can remmeber hearing this on the news when it happened -- 'suppose its one of those Kennedy moments -- on one of those commercial stations moored out in the North Sea off Whitby.
Didn't see the program but a collleague of mine worked with the guy behind it all -- his day job is supplying security parts for steering columns -- he's a fanatical diver and totally obsessed with Bluebird -- spend years finding the boat and contrary to everyone elses opinion somehow knew he could find the body -- bit of a dilema about retrieving it as the Campell family weren't too happy.
It's great to know that there are individuals or small groups of folks who do this stuff.

I know I differ with Stuart on this but I have a naging feeling they should never have raised the wreck as it's Donald's last resting place ... OK I know the body was never found - it's just one of those 50/50 things that sometimes surface from the back of the mind

Donald was found and buried in Coniston on september 11th 2001, other things going on that day thats why you missed it Malcom.

On a different note - I've read people saying the 'labradoodle' (dog) is a modern crossbreed, but there's a picture of one in Leo Villa's book about the Campbell family and the record attempts (I'm sure it was Malcolm Campbells dog) - so they can't be that new as a crossbreed ?