Driven by boundless enthusiasm, a group of 30 NCC cadets set out on a nine-day river sailing expedition in the Godavari amidst thunderous cheers from enthusiastic onlookers in Bhadrachalam town on Thursday.
The expedition camp commandant Captain G Vivekanand from the Indian Navy flagged off the expedition being organised under the aegis of the 6 Andhra NCC Naval Unit, Kakinada. The expedition began on an exhilarating note with the NCC cadets wearing life-jackets and sporting blue caps, venturing into the river on two whaler boats near the bathing ghats in the temple town on Thursday morning.
Trained instructors
The cadets representing various colleges from both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh travelled a distance of about twenty-five km. from Bhadrachalam in the Godavari while fine tuning their skills in river sailing under the watchful eyes of the trained instructors from the Indian Navy. A safety launch and a rescue boat along with the diving team from Eastern Naval Command, Visakhapatnam, were deployed in the river to escort the two whaler boats while the NCC cadets practiced boat pulling and sailing en-route their expedition. The sailing expedition along a stretch of around 455-km. will conclude atSamalkot in East Godavari district on October 2.
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