write about the vartika joshi , the chief of the crew tell finaly about their expendition . answer in paragraph
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Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi, who captained the expedition with her crew – Lieutenant Commanders Pratibha Jamwal, P Swathi, and Lieutenants S Vijaya Devi, B Aishwarya and Payal Gupta – saw this as a chance to do something never done before and volunteered soon after her first trip to Cape Town in 2014.
The Indian Navy does not allow women in combat platforms as yet, and the group had no prior training on a sail boat and hadn’t spent time at sea. But these were small obstacles to overcome, the six women learnt it all within a span of three years and set off on the historic voyage in September 2017.
The expedition, called Navika Sagar Parikrama, saw the six Navy officers cover over 22,000 nautical miles, three oceans, three great capes and five ports across 254 days in a newly-inducted naval vessel, the INSV Tarini. They returned to India in May this year, after a life-changing journey.