First Aid at Sea

Douglas Justins (MB BS FRCA) studied medicine in Australia and became a general practitioner in the Outback. He sailed in the 1975 Financial Times Clipper Race, then in the 1979 Fastnet and in the Three Peaks Race with co-author Colin Berry. He works as an anaesthetist at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Colin Berry (MB BS FRCA) qualified as a doctor in 1984. He completed his first circumnavigation in 1982 and his second in 1990, both times as crew member and medic aboard Whitbread Round the World yachts. He is now an anaesthetist in Exeter and sails regularly in his own boat.