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Doctor Tests Shipwreck Survival: Alain Bombard sails raft without supplies; experiment reshapes lifeboat lore

Typically, doctors are trained to protect others from danger, not to put themselves in it. However, in the early 1950s, a French doctor came to believe the only way to prove his theory about maritime survival was to survive it himself, living off only what the sea could provide.

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