Indian sailor Commander Abhilash Tomy (retd.) will in any case set foot on land, 236 days after surroundings sail within the Golden Globe Race (GGR), a solo continuous yacht race world wide.
Commander Tomy is all set to complete the race second after South African sailor Kirsten Neuschafer at 1:30 PM (IST) in Les Sables d’Olonne, France on Saturday, — 5 years after struggling a serious again harm in a life-threatening coincidence in the similar tournament.
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The retired Naval Commander, who may be a recipient of the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award, had on March 22, 2022, declared his participation within the Golden Globe Race 2022, one of the crucial unhealthy and craziest of endeavours.
“I will be taking part in the Golden Globe Race 2022 on the Bayanat. It is a big thing for me and here is why. On 18 Sep 2018, I was racing in the South Indian Ocean when we were caught in an unusual storm which claimed two of the three boats in its way. Mine was one of them,” Tomy had mentioned in a tweet.
The GGR started on September 4, 2022.
Commander Tommy suffered a again harm at sea after the yacht he was once crusing in were given dismasted on September 18, 2018.
He was once stranded within the southern Indian Ocean right through GGR 2018, a continuous, around-the-globe crusing race.
He was once swept up in a hurricane that wrecked his yacht and ended up being stranded midway between Australia and South Africa.
He was once rescued after 83 days at sea following a fancy world effort. He was once transferred to an Indian Navy vessel and two days after arriving in India, titanium rods had been inserted in his backbone and 5 vertebrae had been fused into one.
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According to the Indian Navy, Commander Tomy was once in conversation with the Race Control in France via messages, which was once relaying messages to JRCC Australia.
Navy spokesperson Captain DK Sharma had showed that “Commander Abhilash Tomy KC of the Indian Navy, representing India in the Golden Globe Race 2018 (GGR) on an indigenously built sailing vessel ‘Thuriya’ was dismasted and suffered a back injury yesterday. He is in the south Indian Ocean, approximately 1900 nautical miles from Perth, Australia and 2700 nm (approx 5020 km on the ground) from Cape Comorin (Kanyakumari).”