PROTECTOR in Action – The Ice Patrol Ship PROTECTOR helped tackle a ferocious fire which raged through a Brazilian research base for four hour on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands.     Two dozen fire crew personnel from the PROTECTOR helped extinguish the fire at the Ferraz Research Station which claimed the lives of two Brazilian staff at the station.    From the PROTECTOR’s the work boat TERRA NOVA landed a quad bike and trailer so portable pumping and fire fighting equipment could be moved around the base.    The British party were working with Chilean and Brazilian naval personnel.  The Ferraz Research Station is able to support 65 personnel during the southern hemisphere's summer months, most of whom are scientists conducting geological, bio-diversity and meteorological research.    

The PROTECTOR, whilst on Patrol returned to the exact spot where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton saved his men nearly 100 years ago. A team from the PROTECTOR carried out scientific research at Point Wild on Elephant Island  - a remote aThe Patrol continues.
nd forbidding shore where Shackleton's party spent months awaiting rescue in 1916.   The Patrol continues.