Yves Marre
Yves Marre is a French entrepreneur, inventor and adventurer, co-founder of Friendship (NGO) in Bangladesh, co-founder of NGO Watever in France and creator of TaraTari Shipyard in Bangladesh.
Studies
Gets a scholarship from the French Air Force at 17 years old. Gets the degree of private airplane pilot at the age of 18.
Career
1973 to 1996, career at Air France as cabin crew.
In parallel, he participates in various projects as a pilot and sailor:
For “Aviation without Borders” NGO: carries out humanitarian missions as co-pilot and logistician in Central Africa and instructor of seaplane in the Colombian Amazon rainforest for a French doctor.
Flight instructor, micro light pilot, designer and trial pilot of “Propulsar” (motorized paraglider from his invention, with which he flew across the English Channel as a “premiere” from France to England in 1988).
He sails across the Atlantic Ocean on its river barge, also as a “premiere”, from Paris to Miami in 1990.
In 1992, assists Gerard Feldzer in his tests of the pedal helium balloon with which Nicolas Hulot and Gerard Feldzer, then Director of the Museum of Air and Space of France, attempted a flight across the Atlantic Ocean.