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Mathilde Géron (born 1986)

Merchant navy officer, top athlete Mathilde Géron started sailing at age 7 and started competing at age 12. She got into the ENMM Le Havre and then became a merchant navy officer with Ferries. She had to give up her bridge aptitude certificate due to an injury to her eye. But it didn’t prevent her from participating in the London Olympic Games selections in 2012 with Camille Lecointre. The pair was considered as one of the most versatile in the world on double sailing dinghy 470. After a week of regatta, they missed the bronze medal by one point and ranked 4th on the general ranking, on 10 August 2012.

Olivier Canavese (born 1985)

Merchant navy officer, Lépine Prize 2012 Olivier Canavese, former student at the ENMM Marseille, navigates with The Méridionale as a purser. On 7th may 2012, he is awarded the Lépine Prize from the hands of the President of the Republic for his device to facilitate manoeuvring when entering a port. His « Wind-Power » allows the captain to know precisely what pressure the wind applies on the ship. Olivier Canavese is also named best inventor by the world organisation for patent rights, as well as for another invention to do with thermic energy.

Clément Belin (born 1977)

Merchant navy officer, comics artist After studying at the ENMM Marseille, Clément Belin is captain on different ships such as oil tankers, bunkering vessels… His best experience remains, according to him, the bulk coasting trade on the west coast of Africa where he was captain on a small general cargo ship dedicated to the carriage of rice... Thanks to his passion for comics, in 2003 he decided to adapt Jean-Claude Izzo’s novel « Les marins perdus » In 2011 and 2012, the volumes 1 and 2 of “Au nom du fils” are published.

Charles Caudrelier (born 1974)

Merchant navy officer, sailor After studying at ENMM Le Havre, Charles Caudrelier joins in 1999 the training centre for ocean racing in Port-la-Forêt. First freshman on the Solitaire du Figaro, he wins in 2001 the BPE Trophy and the Tour de Bretagne with Gildas Morvan, the Solitaire du Figaro in 2004, theTransat Jacques Vabre in 2009 with Marc Guillemot. In July 2012, he wins the Volvo Ocean Race on Groupama 4 as the helmsman-trimmer-navigator and in charge of performance, with Franck Cammas as the skipper.

Thierry Duprey de Vorsent (born 1970)

Helmsman/ Trimmer This Parisian discovers a passion for sailing at age 20 while he is into other sports: running, mountain biking, athletics (1500 m and 800 m) and rowing. From sailing centres to convoying, he enters competition. Quebec, Saint-Malo, , Route du Café, , records campaign onboard the giant catamaran Gitana XIII, circumnavigation on the trimaran Oman Sail, then Maxi Banque Populaire V. After getting back into finishing his diploma at the ENMM, he sets records after records in the Trophée Jules Verne 2012 completed in 45 days 13 hours 42 minutes. Distance record Ecuador/Ecuador in the Trophée Jules Verne in 2011 – Record of the Indian Ocean crossing (Cape Agulhas/South of Tasmania) in the Trophée Jules Verne in 2011.

Patrick Marchesseau (born 1967)

Merchant navy officer, captain of the Ponant In 1993, Patrick Marchesseau joins the ENMM Marseille then navigates as captain on various cruise liners. He is captain of the Ponant in Spring 2008 when pirates attack the ship in the Gulf of Aden. Thanks to his behaviour and calm during the hostage-taking incident, he is given the Légion d’honneur. He participates, in 2010, in the first expedition on a solar boat, the MS Tûranor Planet Solar.

Alain Gautier (born 1962)

Merchant navy officer, sailor Fifteen Solitaire du Figaro, three circumnavigations, two La Baule- Dakar, twelve transats: Alain Gautier’s list of achievements remains unbeaten, which doesn’t prevent him from mastering as well, beside competition, the management of a team and a budget and innovations. In 2008, he joins Alinghi’s team to prepare the Coupe de l’America challenge.

Hervé de Kergariou (born 1960)

Captain, sailor Former student from ENMM Le Havre, merchant navy officer for Brittany Ferries. Sailor, he brilliantly finishes the Solitaire du Figaro in 1994 and 1996.

Damien Savatier (born 1958)

Former student from ENMM Le Havre, captain of the sailing boat Le Phocéa, the excellent regatta competitor finishes with flying colours the Solitaire du Figaro in 1983, 1984 and 1992. He chairs with ambition the Société des Régates of Le Havre (SRH).

Roger Langevin (born 1958)

Ocean-going Master, pilot and sailor Former student from the merchant navy schools of Saint-Malo and Paimpol, ocean-going Master for ten years, then Le Havre pilot between 1980 and 2007 and skipper. He wins Skippers d’Islande in 2000. He takes part in all the races: Transat Jacques Vabre, Route du Rhum, Tour des Iles britanniques et de l’Irlande, Transat en solitaire, Vendée Globe, Québec-Saint-Malo. He ends his adventure in 2009 by a circumnavigation through the tropics.

Jean-François Tallec (born 1946)

Institutional adviser for maritime policy (CMA CGM) and member of the Board of Directors at the ENSM. Holder of a master’s degree in economics, of a diploma from the Ecole d’Administration des Affaires Maritimes and from the Ecole Nationale de la Marine Marchande, Jean-François TALLEC starts his career in 1966 as a merchant navy officer. He will then spend 13 years as an administrator of the Affaires Maritimes. He then joins the prefects (prefect cabinet

director, sub-prefect then prefect). In November 2008, he is appointed General Secretary of the Sea to the Prime Minister, in February 2012, institutional adviser for maritime policy at CMA CGM and, in July 2012, member of the Board of Directors at the ENSM.

Gérard Petipas (born 1939) Ocean going captain, sailor and organizer of ocean races

Student at ENMM Saint-Malo and then ocean going captain, Gérard Petipas navigates for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique and participates in ocean races. He meets Eric Tabarly in 1965 and will be for 15 years the regular Pen Duick navigator. The Pen Duick company is created in 1973 and he will be its president for 30 years. He creates and organizes important ocean races, la Transat Lorient-les Bermudes, la Course de l’Europe, le Challenge Mondial Assistance, la Transat Jacques Vabre. He is today the Vice-president of the association Eric Tabarly and administrator of the French Institute of the Sea.

Jean des Moutis (1911-1965)

French resistance fighter Cadet officer in the merchant navy in 1931, Jean des Moutis joins the navy. He studies at the Ecole des EOR before being posted as officer cadet on the Colbert. Navy officer, he makes landfall in England on 17 June 1940 taking Cherbourg’s Admiralty Board with him. He serves the Admiralty Board in the navy and the merchant navy and will be involved in all the battles as lieutenant commander, commander and captain during WW2 and then in Indo-China.

Jean Levasseur (1909-1947)

Ocean going captain, captain of the Aconit, French resistance fighter Jean Levasseur studies in the merchant navy in 1932 after doing his military service as reserve officer in the navy. Called up in 1936, he joins the Free French Naval Forces in 1940 in Aden. For years, particularly at the command of the Aconit, he will escort vessels, 33 convoys in the north Atlantic in total, and will sail 105,00 miles in operation. He dies during a naval drill in 1947, following an explosion near Lorient. .

Hubert Amyot d'Inville (1909-1944)

Ocean going captain, captain of the 1st regiment of marines, Frech resistance fighter Hubert Amyot d'Inville joins the merchant navy in 1932 then becomes ocean going captain on the Madagascar line in 1939. In 1940, he is called up in the navy and commands a minesweeper which will be sunk by a Stuka in Dunkerque. He makes a landfall in England to rally the France Libre and becomes second in command to Robert Détroyat who trains a marines unit. He will play an important part in Bir Hakeim as chief of the 1st battalion of marines. He dies after stepping on a mine in Italy.

Pierre de Morsier (1908-1991)

Ocean going captain, photographer, captain of the 1st regiment of marines, French resistance fighter Merchant navy officer, Pierre de Morsier will navigate between 1931 and 1939, period during which he keeps a photography diary. A travel logbook including 300 photographs available on the French Lines website. Called up in 1940, he quickly joins the Free French Forces. He will conduct convoy escort operations in the north Atlantic then will command the 1st regiment of marines in 1944.

Paul-Emile Victor (1907-1995)

Ocean going explorer, ethnologist, founder of Expéditions polaires françaises/Missions Paul-Emile Victor Engineer, holder of a diploma of the Paris ethnology Institute and holder of a diploma of the ENMM Marseille, Paul-Emile Victor set s u p, in 1 93 4 , his first polar expedition and stays a year with the Am m assa lik Eskimos. In 1941, he joins the US Air Force: pilot and paratrooper, he coordinates the Search and Rescue squadrons for Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. In 1947, he creates the Expéditions polaires françaises/Missions Paul-Emile Victor. He runs them until 1976, leading a few expeditions in the Arctic (Greenland) and in Antarctica (Terre Adélie) where a permanent French scientific base is set up. Then from 1962, he is an activist for the defence of the Human being and his environment, organising a lot of different activities.