These officers make Telugus proud

Although the Telugu states are divided, Lieutenant Commander P Swathi of Andhra Pradesh and Lt Aishwarya Boddapati of Telangana are jointly bringing new heights to both states. These Telugu Navy Officers are the six-member woman team of the Navika Sagar Parikrama is on the way of an eight-month-long voyage from Goa.

Navika Sagar Parikrama, the first ever attempt by an all-women crew to circumnavigate the globe, which successfully entered to Cape Town, South Africa last night. The journey started on September 10, 2017, with stopovers at four ports including Fremantle of Australia; Lyttleton of New Zealand; Port Stanley of Falklands and Cape Town of South Africa. The journey started at Goa and expected to return in April. Out of the six-woman crew two are the Telugu girls B Aishwarya and P Swathi participating in the world first ever women leading an expedition for circumnavigation the globe on INSV Tarini.

“There is pleasure in pathless seas. There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is a society where none intrudes. By the deep sea and the music in its roar. I love not the man less but nature more,” Aishwarya Boddapati wrote in her blog.
The crew led by Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi and crew comprises Lieutenant Commander Pratibha Jamwal, P Swathi, and Lieutenants S Vijaya Devi, B Aishwarya and Payal Gupta. The expedition was rightly titled  ‘Navika Sagar Parikrama’, focussing to promote women empowerment and ocean sailing. 

The expedition would inspire the youth of our nation to develop an understanding of the sea. To publicise the women power ‘Nari Sakthi’ across the globe aims at harnessing the energy to optimise the livelihood of the women onboard, globalising the ‘Make in India’ initiative and study of the meteorological and wave data observations are a few highlights of the expedition. There were several doubts expressed by senior officers and also other agencies about the Navika Sagar Parikrama. However, the team without any troubles and issues completed its journey and reached South Africa.