{"id":10524,"date":"2021-12-04T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T12:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/04\/launch-of-global-participation-campaign-for-operation-blue-freedom-water-world-record-at-lakshadweep-islands\/"},"modified":"2021-12-04T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T12:19:51","slug":"launch-of-global-participation-campaign-for-operation-blue-freedom-water-world-record-at-lakshadweep-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/04\/launch-of-global-participation-campaign-for-operation-blue-freedom-water-world-record-at-lakshadweep-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Global Participation Campaign for Operation Blue Freedom \u2013 Water World Record at Lakshadweep Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dsprime\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/OBF-WWR-Group-Invite.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>After scaling Siachen Glacier, Divyangjan to create New SCUBA Diving World Record in Lakshadweep<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>The world record is part of \u2018Operation Blue Freedom \u2013 Triple World Records\u2019 in Land, Air and Water<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>On the occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), Team CLAW embarks on the next mission on the journey to catalyse true freedom for people with disabilities worldwide<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>New World Record for the largest team of people with disabilities to SCUBA Dive independently in open seas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Auroville December 04:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Team CLAW <\/strong>is a team of Special Forces Veterans from the Indian Armed Forces creating specialised ecosystems for empowering people with disabilities under their flagship initiative \u2018Operation Blue Freedom\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation Blue Freedom \u2013 Triple World Record Series <\/strong>is a series of three new world records in Land, Air and Water by a global team of People with disabilities trained by Special Forces Veterans (Team CLAW \u2013 Conquer Land Air Water)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Land<\/strong> \u2013 Siachen Glacier \u2013 Largest Team of Divyangjan to scale the world\u2019s highest battlefield \u2013 Completed in Sept 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Air<\/strong> \u2013 Largest team of people with disabilities to Skydive independently in a single event \u2013 To be executed in 2022<\/li>\n<li><strong>Water<\/strong> \u2013 Largest Team of People with Disabilities to SCUBA Dive independently in open seas \u2013 Scheduled in Lakshadweep Islands in Feb 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recently the \u2018Team CLAW\u2019 has received in-principle approval from the Lakshadweep Administration to execute the Operation Blue Freedom \u2013 Water World Record\u2018, in Lakshadweep Islands by a Global Team of People with Disabilities from 20 different countries. The New World Record for the largest team of people with disabilities to SCUBA dive independently will be attempted in the month of February in Lakshadweep Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Blue Freedom synergises the skillsets of retiring Special Forces veterans for the rehabilitation and reskilling of people with disabilities through therapeutic adaptive adventure sports, all-terrain extreme survival skills and emergency medical skills.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Blue Freedom was launched by the then Sports Minister of India Shri. Kiren Rijiju in 2019 at New Delhi, when \u2018Team CLAW\u2019 trained several war veterans on wheelchairs in \u2018therapeutic adaptive SCUBA Diving\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the team had successfully created the world record for the largest team of people with disabilities to scale the world\u2019s highest battlefield, which was the first of the three world records under the \u2018Operation Blue Freedom \u2013 Triple World Record\u2019 series. This was even lauded by Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi as signifying \u2018Can do\u2019 attitude of Indians in his address to the nation on 26<sup>th<\/sup> Sept 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMOIndia\/status\/1442004064082939906\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMOIndia\/status\/1442004064082939906<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe larger vision behind the creation of the World Records is to set up the World\u2019s first Human Ability Biome \u2013 an empowering ecosystem for Divyangjan worldwide\u201d, says Major. Vivek Jacob (Retd), Founder of \u2018Team CLAW\u2019 and \u2018Operation Blue Freedom\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>At Siachen Glacier, Team CLAW created the world record for \u2018largest number of people with disabilities to scale the world\u2019s highest battlefield (Siachen Glacier)\u2019 by scaling up to Kumar Post at an altitude of 15,632 ft. They were trained and led by Team CLAW and were strongly backed by the Indian Army.<\/p>\n<p>Major. Jacob also thanked all the stakeholders and patrons, who\u2019s collective, collaborative spirits and timely supports has aided the grand and successful completion of the world record seamlessly, particularly The Indian Army, The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Exxon-Mobil, Team Mahindra and Car India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Team CLAW and the people with disabilities trained by them personify Farak Laakar Dekhiye, which is what Exxon Mobil stands for in India through expertise, innovation and performance\u201d, and it gives us immense pride in supporting the team in re-defining new frontiers of mobility for people with disabilities worldwide, said Mr. Imtiaz Ahmed, GM (Marketing Deployment, Consumer Marketing), ExxonMobil Lubricants.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Land World Record, where the participation of PWDs were limited to people from India, the Water World Record, on the other hand, will be a global event where PWDs from across the world can sign up and participate, says Major. Arun Ambathy, Director \u2013 Team CLAW and Operation Blue Freedom. On the occasion of International Day of People with Disabilities, \u2018Team CLAW\u2019 has invited the global community of people with disabilities to sign-up for the Water World Record in a virtual event.<\/p>\n<p>Youtube Video \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RWirSqVr07E\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/RWirSqVr07E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with disabilities can sign-up to be part of the SCUBA Diving world record at the following website \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/claw.global\/\">https:\/\/claw.global\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After scaling Siachen Glacier, Divyangjan to create New SCUBA Diving World Record in Lakshadweep The world record is part of \u2018Operation Blue Freedom \u2013 Triple World Records\u2019 in Land, Air and Water On the occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), Team CLAW embarks on the next mission on the journey to catalyse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[631],"class_list":["post-10524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}