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Alain Bombard ( French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ bɔ̃baʁ]; Paris, 27 October 1924 – Paris, 19 July 2005) was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing in a small boat across the Atlantic Ocean without provision.
Jul 24, 2005 · Alain Bombard, who deliberately drifted across the Atlantic for 65 days in a lifeboat with no provisions -- subsisting on plankton, saltwater and raw fish -- to prove it was possible, died on...
Alain Bombard est un docteur en biologie humaine, né le 27 octobre 1924 à Paris 5e et mort le 19 juillet 2005 à Toulon. Sa spécialité de médecin est la biologie, il est plus orienté vers la recherche appliquée que vers le soin direct auprès des patients.
Aug 18, 2023 · At the end of the year 1952, Alain Bombard made a solo crossing of the Atlantic in a production model of a Zodiac inflatable boat called L'Hérétique. Bombard was instrumental in promoting inflatables, which until then had been criticised for the belief that their unconventional construction made them flimsy at sea.
Jul 24, 2012 · An account of Alain Bombard's heroic voyage across the Atlantic - armed with a sextant and fish squeezers.
Jul 21, 2005 · Dr. Alain Bombard, 80, who crossed the Atlantic in a small inflatable boat without food or water to prove that shipwrecked sailors could survive off the sea’s bounty, died Tuesday in...
Dec 28, 2018 · After a 63-day Atlantic crossing, Alain Bombard set foot ashore on the island of Barbados in the West Indies. This solo crossing on a soft-bottomed tyre was carried out to prove that survival at sea is possible.
Alain Bombard ( French pronunciation: [ alɛ̃ bɔ̃baʁ]; Paris, 27 October 1924 – Paris, 19 July 2005) was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing in a small boat across the Atlantic Ocean without provision.
Alain Bombard. (1924—2005) Quick Reference. (1924–2005), a French doctor of medicine and a pioneer of the art of survival at sea. He was born in Paris and qualified at the Faculty of Medicine there before taking a hospital post at Boulogne.
Jul 22, 2005 · Alain Bombard, who died in southern France on Tuesday aged 80, set off in 1952 to cross the Atlantic in a 15-ft inflatable dinghy equipped with a sextant, fishing apparatus, nylon...
