Australian Antarctic station leader David Knoff spent 537 days isolated on the most-unforgiving continent when COVID-19 hit. Here are some takeaways from his experience that you can apply to everyday life.
"The distances it involved were as far as Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart.""As frantic, exciting, interesting and professionally amazing as that was, sitting down for Christmas the next day with now just 22 of us was one of the most sombre and unique experiences you can ever imagine. It still gets me."
"We had six hours with the engines off, the ship was filled with smoke. They had to fight the fire, account for everyone and, eventually, get one of the engines going. "We were right at the end of our limit of exhaustion and endurance, but I think my team were incredibly calm through the whole thing. 'We've been through so much, of course there's a fire, we'll be fine'.""Anything can happen," he says, "and it usually does.""You'll learn more from failure than victory," David says.
"Crossing the line and misjudging the line between running the station as the station leader and then just letting the community do things," he admits.
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