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INSV Tarini all six women crew conferred with Tenzing Norgay Award
INSV Tarini all six women crew conferred with Tenzing Norgay Award: Details, Highlights
The all-women crew of INSV Tarini has won the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure award for completing the challenging task of sailing across the world for 8 months.
The INSV Tarini team of six women sailers was led by Lt. Commander Vartika Joshi. Other crew members: Lieutenant P. Swathi, Lieutenant Pratibha Jamwal, Lieutenant Vijaya Devi, Sub Lieutenant Payal Gupta, and Lieutenant B Aishwarya.
The INSV Tarini team spent 194 days at sea as part of a mission under the Navika Sagar Parikrama project.
The INSV Tarini team also received the Nav Sena Medal on Independence Day on 15th August 2018.
This was the first-ever all-women Indian crew to circumnavigate the world.
Tenzing Norgay National Adventure award is the highest national recognition for remarkable achievements in adventure on land, sea, and air.
INSV Tarini
INSV Tarini is 55-foot sailing vessel built indigenously in India by M/s Aquarius Shipyard Pvt Ltd, Goa. It was inducted into Indian Navy in February 2017. It carried a suite of six sails, including main-sail, head-sails (Genoa and stay-sails), down-wind sails and a storm sail.
The boat was named after famous ‘Tara-Tarini’ temple in Ganjam district of Odisha. The word ‘Tarini’ means boat and in Sanskrit it means savior. Tara-Tarini is patron deity for sailors and merchants and is worshipped for safety and success at sea.
INSV Tarini had advance Raymarine navigation suite and an array of satellite communication systems for perfect navigation anywhere in world. It is sister vessel of INSV Mhadei.
