Commander and Golden Globe Race  skipper Abhilash Tomy has been rescued. He is in conscious state and has been shifted to the French Fishing Vessel Osiris.


The solo skipper, 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.


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.