Community Mourns Death of Michael Fiore, Powerboat Innovator, Racer

Friends and family of MIchael Fiore, 44, the CEO of Bristol-based Outerlimits Offshore Powerboat Company, are in mourning after he died Tuesday due to complications from surgery after a boating crash during a race in Missouri over the weekend.

Fiore was the throttle man for the boat Outlimits, which was racing in the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout when it lost control. He was transported to University Hospital in Columbia, Mo., after the crash.

In a statement, Outerlimits general counsel Frank Sciacca said that the entire Outerlimits family is devastated by the loss of a friend and leader.

“Mike’s love for high-speed boating was only outmatched by the love for his wife, three young children and his family,” Sciacca continued. “Details on arrangements will be made and released in the coming days, and in the meantime we hope all understand the family’s need to grieve for their loss privately.”

Fiore will be remembered as an industry pioneer, who founded OUterlimits Offshore Powerboats in 1993 with a desire to take what the industry was doing at the time and take it to a new, higher standard.

The company’s boats are technological marvels that offer luxury accommodations and space-age construction methods and can rocket upwards of 150 mph.

Hurt in the crash was 47-year-old Joel Begin, of Quebec, who was released from the hospital.

Photo Credit: Outerlimits Powerboat Company via Facebook