Survival at Sea

• Intro: A brief summary of the activity.
• Rank a list of 25 salvaged items if you were hypothetically lost at sea. Then compare your rankings with your group rankings and make a new ranking list. Afterwards, we saw what the U.S. Coast Guard thought was the correct rankings for these 25 salvaged items. It was interesting to see what they thought was the most important items.
• Personal Prioritization: List your prioritization of the items. Share your reasoning on your top 2 picks and your bottom choice. Were there any items you had a hard time choosing a ranking for?
• When I was prioritizing my items I was thinking about food, clothing, and shelter and then being rescued. My top two picks were a 25 liter container of water and 20 square feet of Opaque plastic sheeting. My bottom choice was one bottle of 160 per cent proof rum and then 2 boxes of chocolate bars becauuse I didn't think they were that necessary since there was army rations. I had a hard time choosing rankings for the things I didn't know like the sextant and a shaving mirror.
• Team Prioritization: What priority did your team agree on? Talk about an item the group ranked similarly to you. What was something the group ranked far differently than you? What was something you and the group ranked similarly? How did your group work together?
• The priority our team agreed on was also the water and food. These things ranked similarly to me. The thing that ranked differently was the run and chocolate bars. I forgot that rum could be used as a cleaning supplement. The group and I ranked similarly on the oil, the map of the pacific ocean, and the 15 ft nylon rope. Our team worked together by discussing what we ranked each item and compromised or shared our reasoning. It went very well.
• Expert Prioritization: How did your choices compare to the "official" Coastguard choices? Were there any big surprises between the two? What do you put more weight in, expert opinion or experiential data? Why?
• Our choices were definitly off from the "official" Coastguard choices. There was a surprise in the shaving mirror and because they said that our first priority was to be saved. I put more weight into expert opinion because it is an expert opinion and because they work in the water and understand the dangers of the water.