Isabelle became one of the female symbols

A swallower of miles, a workaholic of spray, a large offshore thirsty... WWF France started the sea air in appointing Isabelle Autissier to his presidency. And, as to reinforce his reputation as a freedom-loving woman, she has disappeared, barely appointed, for the other side of the planet, history to navigate through the ice of Antarctica and crapahuter in penguins emperors. A way of showing that, even if it is agreed to engage in a new more institutional life, it is not yet quite ready to strike out of "tapping bouffeuse. For the world it would waive this third expedition in the global South. "I need to be on the ground," she said as an explanation.

Easily believed: has always been this quinquagénaire juvenile air examines the great blue so closely that she spent a good part of his existence on the waves. Petite Parisienne, she discovered six years on the family Cruiser, sailing in Brittany. A footprint that is never cleared and that will shape the career of this dynamic and passionate, musician woman at his hours: his flute is all travel. In 1978, young engineer in Agronomy and fisheries graduated from the higher national school of Agronomy of Rennes, it undertakes research on large crustaceans and prawns for a professional organization, the Corpecum, before joining the Ifremer, interested in its work. She then left his adopted Britain moved to La Rochelle, where it is to exercise his talents as an educator at the maritime and aquaculture school until 1990. Isabelle Autissier like transmit, explaining, share. Its students will enjoy six years.

Writer and wife of radio

From 2000, this will be the turn of listeners of France Inter to listen. Because this great Navigator became naturally writer and wife of radio. As if the long days of solitude at sea had left time to forge new talent to win to be crowned "marine writer" of the year 2006 for "kerguelen." "The traveller in the country of the shadow".

It is around thirty that one that was still a young engineer decided to satisfy his passion for the great sea launching in the construction of "Word", a sloop of 10-metre steel on which she would make her first solo crossing. Introduction to a long and beautiful Navigator career that will make her the first woman to complete a round the world sailing solo. Beginning of the 1990s, the large offshore racing craze in full swing. Isabelle became one of the female symbols. In 1994 - 1995, in his second Boc Challenge, a race in stages around the world which she brilliantly won the first round, it is sinking in the Indian Ocean. It starts in the 1998-1999 event she dominated until his boat capsizes in the Pacific. After his rescue in extremis, Isabelle Autissier foregone these solitary sports challenges, by wisdom.

More and more involved in community life, our Navigator devoted years to the preservation of the blank spaces in the global South. She is also Director of southern and Antarctic French territories. But also Vice-President of the Grenelle sea in the named group "sensitive meeting of Earth and sea". His new function he opens different horizons. "This allows me to cross a Cape in the pursuit of my citizens fighting", welcomed.