Navika Sagar Parikrama

The Navika Sagar Parikrama crew meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Navika Sagar Parikrama (lit. 'Sailors' Sea Circumambulation') was a circumnavigation of the globe by female officers of the Indian Navy. The six-member all-woman team circumnavigated and managed the whole operation in their first-ever global journey, on INSV Tarini. The voyage lasted 254 days, from 10 September 2017 to 21 May 2018, with only 4 port calls, in Fremantle, Australia; Lyttelton, New Zealand; Port Stanley, Falkland Islands; and Cape Town, South Africa, and a forced technical halt at Port Louis, Mauritius, crossing the equator twice and passing through 3 oceans.[1][2] The voyage was originally set to start on September 5, 2017, but a 5-day delay happened so that Nirmala Sitharaman, who was recently appointed defense minister, could flag off the crew.[3] The boat returned to INS Mandovi in Goa after travelling 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km; 24,900 mi).[4] The voyage was showcased in Tarini, a documentary jointly produced by National Geographic and the Indian Navy, premiering at an event at Lady Shri Ram College on 8 March to mark International Women's Day.[5] The voyage prompted National Geographic to start the "Girls Who Sailed" campaign, to tell tales of "grit and determination".[6]

  1. ^ "All about Navika Sagar Parikrama: Indian Navy's all-women team". India Today. 21 August 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Through the peril-fraught Navika Sagar Parikrama, these women sailors completed 21,600 nautical miles".
  3. ^ "Sheand thesea". The Hindu.
  4. ^ "Gutsy women naval officers to return to Goa after circumnavigating the globe in a sailboat". The Times of India.
  5. ^ "Women's Day 2019: meet six women who braved storms, conquered fears to sail into history with INSV Tarini".
  6. ^ "NatGeo India's 'Girls Who Sailed' campaign to tell the tale of grit and determination".