They essentially make small floating cities. They design, develop and repair a range of watercraft, including merchant ships (tankers, cargo ships, bulk carriers, etc), warships, submarines, passenger ferries, cruise liners, hovercraft, boats, yachts, icebreakers, and other structures such as hydrofoils and oil drilling platforms. These professionals are a few from among the countless who get to put sails to their childhood pastime of making and floating paper boats in rainwater puddles. She’s a naval architect - a community that’s celebrating a big recent achievement as they’ve just rolled out India’s first indigenously-designed and manufactured stealth warship, INS Shivalik, from the public sector, 200-(odd)-year-old, Mazagon Docks Ltd in Mumbai. ![]() Outsider: Oh…it’s a good choice, women have good decorative skills.ĭecorative skills? The naval officer wondered “what to say” to that because she’s in one of the most demanding of professions, which involves designing and developing warships, submarines, hovercraft, hydrofoils and merchant ships. Outsider: So, what do you do in the Navy? Officer: No, I’m a commissioned officer in the Navy. Outsider: So are you working or studying? ![]() A conversation between a woman Indian naval officer and an ‘outsider’?
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