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Bengaluru: An all-women crew of Indian Navy has set out on a voyage to Port Louis in Mauritius on Tuesday from Goa. The boat is set to enter Port Louis on June 11/12 and would return to Goa by early July.
Skippered by Lt Cdr Vartika Joshi, a naval constructor, the Indian Naval Sailing Vessel Mhadei (INSV Mhadei) sailed from Goa. Navy says it is the first open-ocean voyage of its all-women crew, currently training to undertake a circumnavigation of the globe in 2017.
The other members of the crew include Lt P Swathi, Lt B Aishwarya, Lt Pratibha Jamwal, Lt Vijaya and Lt Payal Gupta. According to Navy officials, the crew would be undertaking the arduous voyage through rough seas and heavy weather, expected during the Monsoons, in the Arabian Sea.
“The training voyage would expose the young crew to weather that would be faced by them during the circumnavigation in 2017,” says an official. Navy says the officers have undergone theoretical training in navigation, communication, meteorology and seamanship at Southern Naval Command in Kochi. The officers have been training under Cdr Dilip Donde, India’s first circumnavigator, who undertook his voyage on the same boat, in 2008-09.
The crew is set to circumnavigation the globe on board a new sailing vessel currently under construction at Aquarius Shipyard Pvt Ltd in Goa. The vessel is scheduled to be delivered to Navy by February 2017.
http://english.mathrubhumi.com/mobi...rew-sails-to-mauritius-english-news-1.1082473
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Skippered by Lt Cdr Vartika Joshi, a naval constructor, the Indian Naval Sailing Vessel Mhadei (INSV Mhadei) sailed from Goa. Navy says it is the first open-ocean voyage of its all-women crew, currently training to undertake a circumnavigation of the globe in 2017.
The other members of the crew include Lt P Swathi, Lt B Aishwarya, Lt Pratibha Jamwal, Lt Vijaya and Lt Payal Gupta. According to Navy officials, the crew would be undertaking the arduous voyage through rough seas and heavy weather, expected during the Monsoons, in the Arabian Sea.
“The training voyage would expose the young crew to weather that would be faced by them during the circumnavigation in 2017,” says an official. Navy says the officers have undergone theoretical training in navigation, communication, meteorology and seamanship at Southern Naval Command in Kochi. The officers have been training under Cdr Dilip Donde, India’s first circumnavigator, who undertook his voyage on the same boat, in 2008-09.
The crew is set to circumnavigation the globe on board a new sailing vessel currently under construction at Aquarius Shipyard Pvt Ltd in Goa. The vessel is scheduled to be delivered to Navy by February 2017.
http://english.mathrubhumi.com/mobi...rew-sails-to-mauritius-english-news-1.1082473
@Levina @Parul @Viny
