We have performed a number of full scale crisis management exercises for a client. These scenario-driven excercises were designed by analysing the clients' identified key-contingencies and building realistic incidents around them. The exercises gave the client the opportunity to experience and identify exisiting strengths and weaknesses in their organization with regards to how well they handle a crisis situation in a realistic but safe training scenario. The use of proffessional role-players, real journalists and relatives provided much realism to the excercise.