This aerospace engineer's firm saves fishermen's lives using satellite tech

Thousands of fishermen perish at sea every year due to poor connectivity technology. Parthsarathi Trivedi is addressing this issue via his firm Skylo Technologies, which runs a satellite-based network

Last November, ‘Mathura’, the boat owned by Tharanath Kunder from Malpe, a natural port in the Udupi district in Karnataka, sank off the Maharashtra Coast. Fortunately, the seven fishermen from Udupi, who were onboard Mathura, had a narrow escape. These fishermen included Vinod Harikantra, Mahesh, Lokesh, Shekhar, Gangadhar Jatga Mogera, Nagappa Narayan Harikanthra and Anil Gatabeera Harikant. 

The seven panic-stricken fishermen were shouting and screaming for help as their boat got damaged and started sinking. Luckily for them, a nearby boat, Mahur, which had a BSNL-Skylo 2-way communication device, heard their call to rescue them in the nick of time.