Alain Bombard

Senarist · 80 yaşında vefat etti · Paris, France

Alain Bombard (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. He theorized that a human being could very well survive the trip across the ocean without provisions and decided to test his theory himself in order to save thousands of lives of people lost at sea. On October 19, 1952, Bombard began his solitary trip across the Atlantic Ocean to the West Indies, after...