The last time Australian yachtswoman Lisa Blair sailed solo around Antarctica, she faced one of the worst-case scenarios on a boat in the frigid Southern Ocean.
It was night time in 2017 and she was three-quarters of the way around the icy continent when she suffered a dramatic dismasting after a wire gave way.
"You end up with a 22-metre long spear, tangled up and attached to your boat in rough conditions ... it's a very dangerous and risky scenario," the 36-year-old says.
