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Alain Bombard
(27 Oct 1924 - 19 Jul 2005)
French biologist and
physician
who made a single-handed 65-day voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in a
small lifeboat, L’Hérétique,
to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive without
provisions.
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“I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but
I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea
against men.”
— Alain Bombard
from an interview on the 50th
anniversary of his voyage,
when asked about his avid support for environmentalism in later years
when asked about his avid support for environmentalism in later years
