#73 | The Mariner | Book Review | The Bombard Story | Dr Alain Bombard
The Mariner · Christopher Stanmore-Major
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Something different! a book review of one of the books I have just read over on my other podcast Rare Nautical Reads
This is my thoughts having just read this famous French text (wonderful translated by Brian Connell) that charts the voyage of Dr Alain Bombard across the Atlantic in a 12ft rubber raft, with no food, and no water, in 65 days. Alone.
It is a most remarkable story, rendered even more heroic when one discovers that Bombard only undertook to complete this voyage to prove a method of survival that may aid those unfortunate enough to be shipwrecked. It could possible aid up to 50,000 people a year in 1950.
I think this text has important lessons to teach us as sailors today who rely solely on modern electric life saving devices. One needs to know that if those luxuries are suddenly unavailable, for whatever reason, and you have to enter a raft, you are going to need a plan. Bombard provides it.
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