The fastest time to climb the height of Everest (8,848m 29,028ft)* on a ‘versaclimber’ exercise machine is 1 hr 56 min 8 sec by a team of eight. Royal Airforce firefighters Richard Saville, Edward Kerry, Steve Wilson, Chris Grimshaw, Charlie Boyes, Dan Levy, Dave Rome and Kevin Williams (all UK) broke the record at the NAAFI Bar, Mount Pleasant Airfield, Falkland Islands on 27 April 2004. * this is the previously recognised official measurement of 8,848 m or 29,028 ft.

The first, and so far only, ship to have been sunk by a nuclear submarine in conflict was the ARA Belgrano, a cruiser belonging to the Argentine Navy. She was sunk on 2 May 1982 by the nuclear hunter-killer submarine HMS Conqueror, using three Mk 8 torpedoes, each with an 362-kg (800-lb) warhead, during the Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina. Two of these warheads actually struck the Belgrano, and she sank with a loss of 323 crewmembers. Originally built as the USS Continue reading →