Climbing the cliffs, steep slopes, wandering in any weather around the archipelago, being able to control any ship, going day and night on the most dangerous journeys, not thinking about profit, but only following the voice of his imagination and his own desires, he turned into a beautiful sailor. He was a pilot by nature .. A true pilot is a sailor who knows the seabed better than the sea surface. The wave is only an outward manifestation of those underwater dangers that lurk in the depths of .. Looking at Gilliat, maneuvering among the reefs and melees of the Norman archipelago, one would think that a map of the seabed is stored in his brain. He knew everything, and he dared to do everything.”