Indian Navy chief announces solo circumnavigation expedition for woman officer aboard INSV Tarini
Flagging in and congratulating the crew of INSV Tarini that sailed into the Naval Watermanship Training Cente, India's Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R Hari Kumar hailed the event as a "historic occasion". The vessel sailed back into Goa, India's smallest state, after completing a 31,000 km trans-oceanic and inter-continental voyage from Goa to Cape Town, South Africa, to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and back to Goa, in a span of 188 days.