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Born in the small town of Mimizan on the Atlantic coast in the Landes region of France, Nicolas Capdeville discovered bodyboarding during physiotherapy treatment following a motorbike accident in 1986. He fell in love with the sport, started competing and became the top performing French sportsman in the world of boardsports:
- 2 ISA international Surfing Association world championship titles in 1992 and in 2002

The CMHT nautical club at Hendaye practises all leisure boating and sailing activities. For 3 years now Tribord has provided the sports sailing section with full outfits for dinghy sailing. Around 20 budding sailors, aged between 8 and 14, test Tribord products all year long. They give important feedback to the product manager to help us produce products that are adapted for junior sailors.

For over 20 years, the Atelier Bleu has been teaching youngsters about respecting the marine environment, using underwater discovery activities such as diving and snorkelling. The instructors and the young pupils at the CPIE Côte Provençale Atelier Bleu (Permanent Environment Initiative Centre) work in partnership with the Tribord design team to develop a range of simple, safe and innovative products to help children to do water sports. Each year, 4000 underwater activities allow us to come up with new products and to tes

Before becoming skipper, Tanguy worked as a naval architect and a shipbuilder and made his mark in all three fields.He first got into sailing during his childhood holidays on the coast of Brittany.At the age of 15, he took part in the High School Cup and in 1997 (having passed his A’levels), he crossed the channel to Southampton in England to study as a naval architect.There he met a number of people who would influence his career.Among those he met were Ellen MacArthur, Brian Thompson and Nick Moloney who all had theMini Transat in

Born into a family of mountain-dwellers and pelotari (Pelote Basque players), Amaiur Alfaro chose the ocean as his domain, a place to mark both his individuality and his talent. It was in the Socoa bay at Saint Jean de Luz that he discovered sailing at the age of eight, thanks to beginners' courses for children. Ever since, he has made the ocean his playground, as Basque sailors have done throughout this region's history. At 17 he became a sailing instructor.

The Noot l’Océan project, based on Reunion Island (‘noot’ means ‘ours’ in créole), is a platform for sharing technical, material, and human resources to further scientific research on marine mammals and to raise awareness about this fauna and preserve it. A base camp will soon be set up on the coast to accommodate the entire Nootl’Océan infrastructure.