Manu Bertin
Emmanuel Bertin known as Manu Bertin (19 March 1963, in Toulon in France) is one of the pioneers of the sport of Kite surfing. He began to develop the sport in the early 1990s and has worked with American big wave surfer Laird Hamilton. In 1996 Laird Hamilton and Manu Bertin were instrumental in demonstrating and popularising kitesurfing off the Hawaiian coast of Maui.
Manu Bertin has successfully crossed the entire Atlantic Ocean kitesurfing. Departing from La Gomera in Spain's Canary Islands, Bertin landed in Guadeloupe in 2006. Inevitably he couldn't stand continuously on a surfboard twenty-four hours a day, especially with arms extended and being pulled by a kite at speeds of twenty knots and more. Bertin's secret is the kit-cat, a contraption consisting of two surfboards arranged like a catamaran, with a lightweight chair fastened in between, an idea inspired twenty years ago by New Zealander Peter Lynn.
He has also surfed across the North Pole. He kite-surfed through icebergs in Greenland and even across the English Channel, in addition to being three times runner-up in the world windsurf speed championships.
Bertin
Bertin (c. 615 – c. 709) was the Frankish abbot of a monastery in Saint-Omer later named the Abbey of Saint Bertin after him. He is honored as a saint by Catholic Church.
Life
Bertin was born near Constance, then in the Frankish Duchy of Alamannia. At an early age, he entered the Abbey of Luxeuil, where, under the austere rule of its abbot, Columbanus, he prepared himself for a future missionary career. About the year 638 he set out, in company with two confrères, Mummolin and Ebertram, for the extreme northern part of France in order to assist his friend and kinsman, Bishop Omer, in the evangelization of the Morini. This country, now in the Department of Pas-de-Calais, was then one vast marsh, studded here and there with hillocks and overgrown with seaweed and bulrushes. On one of these hillocks, Bertin and his companions built a small house and they went out daily to preach the Christian faith to the natives, most of whom were still pagans.
Gradually some converted pagans joined the little band of missionaries and a larger monastery had to be built. A tract of land called Sithiu had been donated to Omer by a converted nobleman named Adrowald. Omer now turned this whole tract over to the missionaries, who selected a suitable place on it for their new Abbey of St. Peter. Additional villages were granted by Count Waldebert, later a monk at Bertin's monastery of Sythiu and eventually Abbot of Luxueil and canonized, who gave his son at the baptismal font to Bertin, from whom the boy received his name and his education. The community grew so rapidly that in a short time this monastery also became too small and another was built where the city of St. Omer now stands.
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