An alarm sound this week at Mawson to initiate a training exercise to practice our team search and rescue skills. The pretend but very convincing patient Doug had fallen on a rocky embankment on nearby Teyssier Island and the first response team practised how to locate, access, stabilise and transport (LAST) the patient back to station.
Keeping Doug warm and protected inside a red mega bivvy bag was important, but with gusting winds, it made rescue conditions difficult for the search and rescue team with the tight squeeze and the persistent noisy flapping of the bivvy bag. It was a great team effort to safely transport the not so patient patient back to station.
