Top snooker referee Olivier Marteel has joined the health heroes on the coronavirus front line and is using scuba diver masks in a bid to fill the void left by lack of equipment.
Marteel, who took charge of the 2015 World Championship final, combines his sporting duties with working as a radiology nurse in Belgium.
The 50-year-old would normally have been at the Crucible this week before the tournament was postponed due to the pandemic. But instead Marteel finds himself in A&E at the AZ West Hospital in Veurne after volunteering to assist in the crisis.
He said: “When the virus because widespread, each hospital created an extra Accident and Emergency department. “So there was one for Covid patients and one for everything else.