Yunus Dar

Lt Cdr Abhilash Tomy, who was stranded in a boat in the deep south of the Indian Ocean in September 2018 while on a race around the earth, is confident of taking on the oceans once again. The first ever Indian to circumnavigate the earth, Abhilash, while addressing a presser in New Delhi on 17 January 2019, said he wants to go back to the sea as soon as possible, but said it might take him a couple of years to recover fully.

Participating in the Golden Globe Race as the only Asian, along with nine other sailors, Abhilash was on an arduous journey, unassisted by any modern navigation, on a 30,000-mile solo and non-stop race around the globe which kicked off in France. The storm hit him when he was around 1900 nautical miles from Perth, Australia. His boat was knocked down, with its boom broken and everything thrown around. “Our worst fears had