The entire battle may have appeared extremely complicated, but in reality, the engagement lasted only a few hours. The Bharatiya fleet executed only a single pincer manoeuvre, and by the time its ships withdrew to prepare for the next move, the European fleet had already been defeated.
What was left behind after the battle was nothing but devastation. Ship debris littered the waters, and among it floated bodies, pale, bloodless, and cold, drifting helplessly as turbulent waves pushed them about. The fires aboard the wrecked vessels had not yet died down. Flames still raged fiercely, reducing wood to ash and sending thick plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky.
