Sometimes I think I have a rather unusual job......until I meet someone like Steve Curtis, current and eight times Class 1 Offshore Powerboat Champion whose job as one of the worlds best throttlemen, is to control the speed of a five tonne boat worth half a million pounds, skimming the surface of the sea at 160mph. In 1993 he survived a catastrophic accident in the Mediterranean and managed to swim to the shore while the rescue teams, finding no body at the crash site, presumed him dead. When he casually mentioned that eight of his friends had been killed in the sport, not being a very good swimmer I decided to stick with photography for the time being....