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Dorine Bourneton, daughter of an amateur pilot, was introduced to aviation from a very young age. She flew solo from the age of 15. On May 12, 1991, when she was 16 years old, the tourist plane on which she was a passenger, faced with very bad weather conditions, crashed into the side of Mont d’Alambre. The only survivor, rescued after twelve hours of searching, her serious injuries permanently deprived her of the use of her legs.

Despite this handicap, she decided to take control of a plane again and then committed herself to the professionalization of disabled pilots in civil aviation. She became the first paraplegic aerobatic pilot in the world in 2015.

Rue “Dorine Bourneton” was inaugurated in the town of Andrézieux-Bouthéon (Loire) in May 2016.

During the summer of 2018, on France 5, she presented a documentary series of 4 episodes (50 min) entitled Dorine, d’un ciel à l’autre in which her passions for aviation and travel are closely intertwined.

In 2019, Dorine Bourneton became godmother of the Institute for Research on the Spinal Cord and the Brain (IRME).

She is the daughter of Philippe Cousteau, who died when she was three, and Janice Cousteau née Sullivan, and the granddaughter of the explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who introduced her to scuba diving. -marine and with whom she travels around the world.

Alexandra Cousteau particularly campaigns on issues of conservation, restoration and sustainable management of water.

In 2000, Alexandra founded the organization EarthEcho International with her brother Philippe Cousteau to continue the family work in favor of science and education.

In February 2012, she joined the Oceana organization as an advisor.

Alexandra Cousteau is also a member of the board of directors of Neom, the futuristic city project located in the northwest of Saudi Arabia and created by Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdelazize Al Saud.

The vulcanologist Jacques Durieux trained in the field at the school of Haroun Tazieff and friend of the Kraffts, Jacques Durieux was a discreet autodidact, surveyor of volcanoes. spent a large part of his life in Lyon then in Feyzin.
Jacques Durieux was the director of the GEVA “Active Volcano Study Group” which he founded in 1982, focused on research and risk prevention.
Specializing in the phenomenology of eruptive dynamism, he worked from 1970 to 1975 as a government technical attaché in Zaire, particularly on the volcanoes of the Virungas range; he was part of the Goma Volcanic Risk Management Unit.

In addition to his numerous scientific popularization and communication work in volcanology, he has produced several reports for television and magazines on the world’s volcanoes.

He is particularly known for being, with the photographer Philippe Bourseiller, the author of the voluminous work Des volcans et des hommes, published in 2001.