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Executive project builder bringing together people, ideas and initiatives to make ambitious things happen — where ocean, environment, education and human impact meet.
Field & Immersion
Learning by being there.
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Tanguy Lomba
Tanguy Lomba
31 years old
Canary Islands, Spain
About
A non-linear path built through sport, sea, education & field work. From the French national beach volleyball team to documenting artisanal fishing communities in South America; raising children on the ocean as a classroom; then three years developing sail-electric maritime mobility in the Canary Islands. Education — formal or not — is at the core of everything I do.
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Elite Sport
The foundation of everything.
French National · FISU #6 · U18 Best Player 2013
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What I do
Project · Partnerships · Fundraising
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Skills
Natural · Academic · Technical
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Experience
OIRA · InSail · Bonne Espérance
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Looking for
Ocean · Education · Humanitarian
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Hybrid & Remote · Freelance missions welcome
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The real CV — a life in the field
Learning by being there.

There are two CVs. The official one — dates, titles, organisations. And the real one: what you actually learned, who you met, what changed you. This is the second one.

Chapter 01 — Communities
The communities the system forgot.
From the Quechua villages of the Andes to the artisanal fishermen of Chile and Brazil, from the coastal shanties of Panama to the polluted shores of Cartagena — years alongside communities living at the intersection of poverty, environmental degradation and institutional neglect. This is where my understanding of island resilience and social impact is rooted.
Quechua village assemblies, Andes — documenting indigenous governance and collective decision-making.
Artisanal fishermen, Chile Pacific coast — small-scale fishing under growing economic pressure.
Jangadeiros, Ceará (Brazil) — traditional sail fishermen using centuries-old techniques on the open Atlantic.
Cartagena, Colombia — coastal poverty meets environmental pollution at its most visible.
Porto Belo, Panama — a coastal fishing community surviving with no institutional support.
Portobelo boat graveyard — what extractive fishing without transition leaves behind.
Chapter 02 — Ocean
The ocean as teacher, the sea as field.
PADI Divemaster, offshore skipper, sailor — the ocean has been my most demanding classroom. From orca encounters in the Canary Islands to reef sharks in the Pacific, from conservation dives in the Caribbean to transatlantic and transpacific crossings with children aged 1 and 4.
Transatlantic & transpacific crossings — 15,000+ nm with family, managing risk, weather and crew at every step.
Deck crew in a tropical squall — mission Noumène. Leadership under pressure with a smile.
Orca encounter, Canary Islands — the ocean communicates in its own language.
Manta ray aggregation, French Polynesia — biodiversity documentation.
Caribbean dive — the richness that exists below the surface.
Chapter 03 — Education & Transmission
The world as a classroom. My children as my best students.
A deliberate choice: to educate my children through immersion. The Canal de Panama explained through a cargo ship. Kuna governance through a pirogue at dawn. The sargassum crisis through a beach covered in debris. The Pacific islands through people who depend on the sea for everything. These are lessons that stay.
Canal de Panama — "Why is that ship so big?" Two hours of conversation about global trade, fossil fuels, and what maritime decarbonisation actually means in the real world.
San Blas — Kuna family at dawn. A lesson in cultural humility and respect.
Guadeloupe — documenting the sargassum crisis and its impact on coastal communities.
Huahine, French Polynesia — meeting island peoples whose identity is inseparable from the ocean.
Panama mangroves — exploring with children the nurseries of the ocean.
Moorea, French Polynesia — teaching children to navigate, to be autonomous, to meet the world without fear.
Chapter 04 — Building & Acting
From field knowledge to structural change.
All of this — the communities, the ocean, the education — eventually converges into one question: what can we actually build to change things? The refit of the Noumène, the development of InSail, the creation of OIRA. Moving from witnessing to acting.
Refit of the Noumène — circular economy, upcycling and 15,000 nm at sea.
Canal de Panama — 14,000 ships/year. 3% of global emissions. That's what we're working to change.

"Two CVs: the official one, and the real one. The real one is built from what the ocean taught me, what communities showed me, and what my children asked me to explain."