Women crew on open ocean voyage reaches Mauritius

NEW DELHI: Braving rough seas whipped up by south-west monsoons, Indian Navy sail boat Mhadei, with an all-women crew, on Tuesday sailed into Port Louis in Mauritius,

NEW DELHI: Braving rough seas whipped up by south-west monsoons, Indian Navy sail boat Mhadei, with an all-women crew, on Tuesday sailed into Port Louis in Mauritius, 20 days after it set off from Goa. This is the first open ocean voyage by an all-women crew on any vessel of the navy. Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi, a naval architect, is the first woman skipper of Mhadei. The boat is crewed by Lieutenant P Swathi, Lieutenant Pratibha Jamwal (Air Traffic Control specialists), Lieutenant Vijaya Devi, Sub Lieutenant Payal Gupta (both education officers) and Lieutenant B Aishwarya, a naval architect.

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