Physician specialising in head and neck surgery, combining his skills with his passion – the sea – he initiated a new discipline in 1960: medical oceanography. To support it, he founded in Nice, with his wife Jacqueline AUBERT, also a physician, the Centre d’études et de Recherches de Biologie Marine et d’Océanographie Médicale (CERBOM, 1960-1996), becoming Director of Research at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale. In 1966, he joined the CERBOM as editor of the Revue Internationale d’Océanographie Médicale, which he directed until 1994. When the CERBOM closed its doors, the AUBERT couple continued their research activities in a new setting.