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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. He theorized that a human being could very well survive the trip across the ocean without provisions and decided ...
In 1965, the company changed its name to "Zodiac" (english spelling). The name Zodiac is associated with the inflatable boats that were developed after the Second World War and made famous by the explorations of Jacques Cousteau and the experiences of intentional castaway Alain Bombard. For this reason, when the Zodiac Group sold its Marine ...
The company started marketing to the general public in 1949. Zodiac received publicity in late 1952 after Alain Bombard made a crossing of the Atlantic in a production model of a Zodiac inflatable boat called L'Hérétique. [2] [3] [4]
Alain Bombard (1924–2005), French biologist, physician and politician Alain Bondue (born 1959), France cyclist Alain Boublil , librettist who worked with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg
Alain Bombard; Jens-Peter Bonde; Andrea Bonetti; Rinaldo Bontempi; Franco Borgo; Jean-Louis Borloo; Jean-Louis Bourlanges; David Bowe; Jürgen Brand; Ursula Braun-Moser; Georges de Brémonds d'Ars; Hiltrud Breyer; Yvon Briant; Mathilde van den Brink; Rogério Brito; Elmar Brok; Carlos María Bru Purón; Janey O'Neil Buchan; Martine Buron
Hannes Lindemann (28 December 1922 – 17 April 2015) was a German doctor, navigator and sailor. [1] [2] He made two solo transatlantic crossings, one in a sailing dugout canoe made while working in Liberia and the second in a 17-foot Klepper Aerius II double folding kayak, modified to carry two masts and an outrigger. [3]
In the 1950s, the French Navy officer and biologist Alain Bombard was the first to combine the outboard engine, a rigid floor and a boat shaped inflatable. The former airplane -manufacturer Zodiac built that boat and a friend of Bombard, the diver Jacques-Yves Cousteau began to use it, after Bombard sailed across the Atlantic Ocean with his ...
Alain Bombard Socialist Party PES: Jean-Louis Borloo (until 4 September 1992) François Froment-Meurice (from 5 September 1992) Independent (until 4 September 1992) Centre of Social Democrats NI (until 4 September 1992) EPP. Jean-Louis Bourlanges Independent EPP: Yvon Briant (until 13 August 1992) André Soulier (from 17 August 1992)