Injured naval commander Abhilash Tomy to be rescued within 3 hours

September 24, 2018 09:19

Help is expected to reach an injured Indian sailor stranded in remote waters far off the West Australian coast in the next three-odd hours, according to rescuers.

Solo skipper Abhilash Tomy, an officer in the Indian Navy, was taking part in the around-the-world Golden Globe Race when his 10-metre vessel Thuriya struck trouble in the south-west Indian Ocean on Friday.

The mast on Tomy's yacht broke during a storm and he is understood to have suffered a serious back injury, leaving him confined to his bunk about 1,800 nautical miles (3,300 kilometres) south-west of Perth.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's search and rescue operations manager Alan Lloyd said there was still only limited information available about Tomy's condition, but help was getting closer.

Tomy became the first Indian to circumnavigate the globe when he achieved the feat in 2013, his website says.

He was in third place in the Golden Globe Race when the storm hit.

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