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With advanced navigation tech, Centre looks to tap heritage of lighthouses

A view of the Kovalam lighthouse in Kerala. The Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways is holding a lighthouse festival on September 23-25

Photo: Bitasta Basu
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Photo: Bitasta Basu

Dhruvaksh Saha New Delhi
On a windy night in Kavaratti, just before torrential monsoons were bracing to hit India’s southern coast, a team of seafarers huddled in a boat set sail to Suheli Par, an uninhabited island in Lakshadweep. This was routine for the seasoned lighthouse officers of the archipelago who were tasked with the responsibility of bringing back the lone lighthouse attendant of the deserted Suheli Par island before the monsoons.

Somewhere along the journey, team members on the boat found themselves stuck in the worst imaginable situation – engine malfunction. They, stranded at sea for 28 hours, somehow fixed their boat but had