- Indian Navy has commenced the largest coastal defence Exercise SEA VIGIL off the Indian coast on January 22, 2019. It is a two day exercise.
- Exercise SEA VIGIL, a first of its kind, is being undertaken along the entire 7516.6 km coastline and Exclusive Economic Zone of India and is involving all the 13 coastal States and Union Territories along with all maritime stakeholders, including the fishing and coastal communities.
- Exercise SEA VIGIL aims to comprehensively and holistically validate the efficacy of the measures taken since ’26/11′ i.e the terror attack in Mumbai in 2008.
- The two-day exercise will serve as a build-up to the major theatre-level tri-service exercise, TROPEX (Theatre-level Readiness Operational Exercise) conducted by the Indian Navy every two years.
