Didier was born in Evian-les-Bains in Haute Savoie, the January 14, 1963, one day snowstorm.
Many years later, he lived those of the ocean, the legacy of his grandfather Breton.
He always had feet rooted in the land of the Alps, but with his eyes fixed on the horizon.


Thus, after devouring books of adventure, he decided to don the panoply of the adventurer, by making a journey that no one else to date has yet lived.

In 1995, when he delivery driver in Switzerland, he decided everything behind, after having heard the radio announce the arrival of Guy Delage, winner of the Atlantic by swimming.
This feat was the spark for Didier that motivated his decision.
Big fan of Elvis Presley, he decided to pay him a tribute of the novel, by visiting his grave, Evian-les-Bains in Memphis Tennessee by the sheer force of his legs and especially his control.

Despite an allergy to the epoxy (resin synthetic), he built his boat only the "My Way" in a shipyard in Morges, on the Swiss shore of Lake Geneva.
Alone, but taking advantage of the advice of Raymond Morerod.
The owner of the site professes indeed adopted as ideas on ways than effective self-returnable and unsinkable.
Didier also a chance to meet Daniel Oberson cycles Cilo, who will become the specialist in drive and also part Michel Plantaz, who owns a gym in Thonon-les-Bains, elite athlete, which will refine training Custom ... and guaranteed products without additives.

On November 24, 1996 is the big day, from Evian to Geneva cycle seas on Lake Leman and Geneva in Cadiz cycling 2000 km in the snow started. He arrived safely in Cadiz, but the first contact with the sea is rough.
After two false starts, cast ashore by a storm, then by big tendinitis, he departed in October 1998 Sagres, Portugal.
This time it won in 27 days and no radio, with only a GPS, it landed on Tenerife, Canary Island, row the Atlantic.

He left again on 1 February, but the winds make it lurch, the fault in El Niña.
Throughout his journey, he must fight unceasingly against fickle winds and currents, which push back the night when he rests.
Results, 117 days at sea to ride 10 hours a day, a month longer than anticipated and the arrival at the Désirade dependency of Guadeloupe with other food, half a packet of spaghetti in reserve ... Even should it be recovered off, access to the Atlantic coast of the Caribbean is impossible for a boat propelled by strength of one man.

Lack of finance and frustrated having landed under its own power, Didier interrupts his journey to Memphis, but the challenge of a new crossing of the Atlantic.

It is from Gran Canaria in January 2001, he succeeded in crossing to 88 days in Martinique, making this Caribbean island the starting point for the rest of his adventure: the USA and Memphis.

On April 6, 2002 he left the port of Marin in Martinique, crossing the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
After risking his life several times, off Jamaica, where she ran aground on a reef near the Strait of Yucatan, where he jumped a barrier reef, in Terrebonne Bay, where he remained pegged 36 hours a buoy to avoid being driven onto the coast, he set foot for the first time on American soil of Timbalier Island, June 20, 2002.
On 21 June he arrived at Grand Isle, Louisiana, after covering 4 300 km in 75 days, in temperatures ranging from 35 to 44 ° inside the boat.

On July 31 he leaves bicycle and seven days runs the 800 km separating him from Memphis.

After seven years and seven months of effort, 17 000 kilometers traveled by sea and 3000 km in cycling, Didier has achieved his dream.

On September 21, aboard of his cycle of seas, he made his comeback in Evian-les-Bains, where his waiting family, friends and elected officials of Savoy who, during all these years sustained without flinching.
Thousands of people could see, touch and visit his "My Way" to "City of Water" from Post, one of the sites "Virada of Hope 2002" and a year later EXCENEVEX.

Godfather of heart, he had specially written poems of hope for raising funds for the Association " to Overcome cystic fibrosis ".