Health officials and local fishermen will also take part, to help them learn how to deal with a 'real life' situation if such an attack takes place.

'The navy will deploy five ships while the Coast Guard will deploy its interceptor vehicles for this exercise,' Singh said.

The drill will also simulate a hijacking of a ship by one team while the other will try to intercept the hijacked vessel.

The navy has carried out similar drills along the Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu coasts earlier.