India’s bold and beautiful step out to conquer the seas. Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met six officers of the Indian Navy who will sail around the world in India’s first attempt to circumnavigate the globe by an all-women crew. Trained by Commander Dilip Donde, the first Indian sailor to circumnavigate the globe alone on board the INSV Mhade, the crew will be travelling in the vessel INSV Tarini.
As crew explained the journey’s plan to PM Modi, “He exhorted them to project India’s capabilities and strengths across the world and also encouraged them to write and share their experiences after the successful completion of the voyage,” a statement by the government said.
The six Indian Navy officers will begin the sea journey later this month from Goa. Most of these young women are from the mountains and never saw an ocean in their childhood. Today, they say they have a great relationship with the sea. The crew is expected to complete their journey and return to Goa in March 2018. The expedition has been named Navika Sagar Parikrama.
The crew will stop at four ports – Fremantle (Australia), Lyttleton (New Zealand), Port Stanley (Falklands), and Cape Town (South Africa).
“INSV Tarini is a 55-foot sailing vessel, which has been built indigenously was inducted in the Indian Navy earlier this year. The vessel will be captained by Lt. Commander Vartika Joshi, and the crew comprises Lt. Commander Pratibha Jamwal, Lt. Commander P Swathi, Lieutenant S Vijaya Devi, Lieutenant B Aishwarya and Lieutenant Payal Gupta, the statement said.
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