French Naval Survival Test - The volunteers being "cast adrift" at the start of the gruelling test.Ten volunteers from the French Navy led by a Lieutenant-Commander and including a medical officer and an officer of the High Command, have been cast adrift in the esturary of the river at Brest.They are making a six-day test of theories advanced by Dr. A. Bombard, who in 1952 spent 65 days crossing the Atlantic by raft in an effort to prove that ship wrecked sailors could survive on raw fish and plankton, and could drink far larger quantities of sea water than had been through possible. March 27, 1955.