Drama on the high seas: Saving Indian Navy Commander Abhilash Tomy

The Golden Globe Race started from Les Sables-d'Olonne, France on July 1

The Indian Navy's most decorated and accomplished sailor, Kirti Chakra winner Commander Abhilash Tomy, is fighting the battle of his life. On the bleak Southern Ocean, somewhere between India, Antarctica, Africa and Australia, Tomy is lying alone on a sailboat, incapacitated with a severe back injury after a furious gale and giant waves rolled his boat over and ripped off its main mast. 

With communications fading and rescuers still far away, Tomy’s latest message reads: “Can move toes. Feel numb. Can’t eat or drink.