ISBN 978-81-972665-0-8 — Samudra Saga

Lessons Below the Waterline

By Dr. S. Jeevan · Co-Founder, Samudra Shipyard (P) Ltd.

A founder-family memoir tracing four decades of Samudra Shipyard, from a modest boatbuilding company lit with a lamp in Aroor in 1990 to building India’s first air-conditioned cruise vessel, inaugurated by the Prime Minister. Across twelve chapters, each closing with its own “Lessons Below the Waterline”, the book keeps its setbacks in view alongside its successes — a fuel-efficient fishing boat that changed a coastal community’s economics, a houseboat built too early for its market, and a night crossing the family very nearly did not survive.