Panaji: On Thursday at 5.22 pm, as LT CDRS DELNA K and Roopa Alagirisamy stepped on Indian earth after a 239-day historic journey, they became the first Indian pair to raise the planet.“Yes. We made it.” These four words of DELNA expressed the journey of 25,400-notical-miles starting on October 2 from the coast of Mandovi.“We saw that the oceans and waves were growing angry in a few days. The waves were 20 feet long, looked like a wall. But we also had days when the sea was calm as a mirror, and felt heavenly, and felt in vain,” in every sea and in every sea, he narrated his adventurous effort to fly its adventurous endwear “The perimeter took him through four oceans, crossing the equator twice and scoring three great caps – a route was accepted as the gold standard in the ocean sailing. The mission was part of the Navy’s broad initiative to show the role of women in marine operations. Its purpose was to inspire a new generation of women to embrace adventure and take them to the seas – a domination dominated by men for a long time.“I think I lived all my seven lives in these eight months. This is not my last visit, I regret it,” with a laugh, he addressed his family.The yatra not only tested mental endurance, but also the border. Navy officials navigated some of the world’s most trusted water, including the South Pacific and the Southern Ocean. They fought with huge waves, GAIL-Fores winds and the company only with long mantras of isolation with each other and their 56-foot boat as their shelter.During the perimeter, the pair faced a complete navigation blackout in the middle of the night in the Pacific Ocean. “We lost GPS, Boat Heading, Wind Instrument, Auto-Pilot … everything. It took us three hours, but it felt like an eternity to bring back the system. It actually gave us a false sense of security in modern equipment.”The pair covered a duration of 25,400 knots over an eight -month period, including Framental (Australia), Littleton (New Zealand), Port Stanley (Fuckland Islands) and Cape Town (South Africa) in a period of eight months with port calls.Commander Abhilash Tommy (Rit), the first Indian to leave around the Earth provided mentorship to the pair. Their existence and maintenance experience helped the couple with double -handed sailing skills. Captain Vipul Mehrsi, Captain Atul Sinha and Commander Nikhil Hegde also played an important role in preparing officers and ship for the campaign.The victorious return of two naval officers at the Mormugao port was seen by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and Navy Staff Admiral Dinesh’s head of Tripathi.
