Dehradun, May 24 -- The team.

As he bid goodbye to his family in Dehradun on 9 February, en route to Egypt to pick up the next assignment, Arnab Roy had no inkling that it would be different this time. It was supposed to be yet another usual assignment, couple of months long from one port to another. He had been doing so for 35 plus years. Sailing across seas and oceans carrying bulk cargo and tankers, an interesting yet a challenging and tough job with only the blue seas for company for days together.

Arriving at the Suez port, Arnab joined a mammoth 250 metre long tanker and began an 11 day journey to Kuwait. Arriving on 27 February, the tanker was filled with 95,000 million tonnes of jet fuel at Kuwait. The destination? Port of Le Ha...