The office is a hive of activity today. The Ice Team and the Floating Support Base personnel have assembled for a day of medical training. The training is being conducted by the highly experienced polar and high-altitude medic, Doc Martin.

Resuscitation, life support, fracture and pain management were the main areas of focus, with special attention given to the dangers that extreme cold poses to the human body, namely frostbite and hypothermia.

A banana was the unfortunate victim of Doc Martin’s ‘how to stitch an open wound’ demonstration.