{"id":33745,"date":"2018-10-30T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33745"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:45:31","slug":"sagardhwani-retraces-historic-indian-ocean-expedition-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sagardhwani-retraces-historic-indian-ocean-expedition-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sagardhwani retraces historic Indian Ocean expedition routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Kochi\/sagardhwani-retraces-historic-indian-ocean-expedition-routes\/article20790777.ece\"><strong>Sagardhwani retraces historic Indian Ocean expedition routes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marine acoustic research vessel\u00a0<em>INS Sagardhwani<\/em>\u00a0is riding a wave of history that charted the course of oceanographic research in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research to look at impact of monsoon and human activity on marine resources<\/p>\n<p><strong>INS Sagardhwani<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kochi-based ship, operated by the Navy and equipped with eight scientific laboratories, recently joined an international campaign to revisit the first major interdisciplinary \u2018International Indian Ocean Exploration (IIOE)\u2019 undertaken by 13 countries with 46 vessels in the 1960s<\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indian Naval Ships\u00a0<em>Kistna<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Varuna<\/em>\u00a0had taken part in the expedition held under the United Nations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kistna<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Kistna<\/em>, a frigate which was converted for ocean surveys for want of a dedicated vessel for the purpose, had conducted 29 cruises carrying scientists from various organisations, including the then fledgling Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), a DRDO laboratory which now owns the state-of-the-art\u00a0<em>Sagardhwani<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The massive drive also covered a large part of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, including the coastal seas<\/li>\n<li><em>Sagardhwani<\/em>\u2019s present cruise retraces certain routes followed by\u00a0<em>Kistna<\/em>\u00a0in its mission that lasted till 1965. Between November 17 and 20,\u00a0<em>Sagardhwani<\/em>\u00a0followed the sixth cruise track of\u00a0<em>Kistna<\/em>\u00a0in the southern Bay of Bengal in 1963.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IIOE-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As the ongoing commemorative expedition is known, is organised by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) under the UN.<\/li>\n<li>It hopes to furthering the scientific community\u2019s understanding of the Indian Ocean biophysical variability in response to monsoon and human activity<\/li>\n<li>A total of 52 nations are taking part in IIOE-2, carrying out oceanographic\u00a0research\u00a0in designated areas in the Indian Ocean.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IIOE-1 <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was a watershed event for ocean research in India<\/li>\n<li>Four Indian vessels, including two small trawlers, from Kochi, had taken part in it<\/li>\n<li>But it triggered the formation of several ocean-based research institutions in India like the NIO, NIOT, INCOIS and NCAOR &amp; ocean studies departments in various universities<\/li>\n<li>The event was among the factors instrumental in rechristening the Indian Naval Physical Laboratory in 1968 to NPOL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In Future<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between now and 2020, the DRDO would be carrying out extensive scientific research along four tracks covered by\u00a0<em>Kistna<\/em>\u00a0in the maiden expedition<\/li>\n<li>The research carried out by NPOL scientists on\u00a0<em>Sagardhwani<\/em>\u00a0has been immensely useful in enabling a better understanding of our littoral (<em>relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake<\/em>) waters as well as the seabed, which are of vital maritime and security interest to India<\/li>\n<li>A monograph on the scientific contributions of\u00a0<em>Sagardhwani<\/em>\u00a0over the past two decades was brought out in August this year, when the ship completed its 200th scientific mission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sagardhwani retraces historic Indian Ocean expedition routes Context Marine acoustic research vessel\u00a0INS Sagardhwani\u00a0is riding a wave of history that charted the course of oceanographic research in the Indian Ocean. What Research to look at impact of monsoon and human activity on marine resources INS Sagardhwani The Kochi-based ship, operated by the Navy and equipped with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sagardhwani-retraces-historic-indian-ocean-expedition-routes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sagardhwani retraces historic Indian Ocean expedition routes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913608},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}