Navy's all-women crew to reach Goa after sailing around globe
Over eight months after it set sail from Goa, the all-women crew of the Indian Navy on board the naval vessel INSV Tarini will return to the state on Monday after the historic circumnavigation of the globe. Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will welcome the all-women crew when it arrives near Panaji, from where they had embarked on the journey on September 10 last year.
The crew of expedition Navika Sagar Parikrama
The expedition named "Navika Sagar Parikrama" is led by Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi; it is the first-ever Indian circumnavigation of the globe by an all-women crew. The crew also included Lt Commanders Pratibha Jamwal and Swati P, and Lieutenants Aishwarya Boddapati, S Vijaya Devi and Payal Gupta. The women officers trained under Captain Dilip Donde, the first Indian to solo-circumnavigate the globe in 2009-10.
They covered 21,600 nautical miles in the INSV Tarini
The expedition sailed in six legs, with stopovers at Fremantle (Australia), Lyttleton (New Zealand), Port Stanley (Falkland-Islands), Cape Town (SA), and Mauritius. It covered 21,600 nautical miles in the Indian-built sailing vessel INSV Tarini that visited five countries and crossed the Equator twice, sailed across four continents and three oceans, and passed south of the three Great Capes - Leeuwin, Horn, and Good Hope
