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    Lost at Sea Instructions 8-19-2015

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    1) You are adrift at sea after a fire on your private yacht destroyed much of the boat and navigation equipment, leaving your location unknown around 1000 miles from land. 2) You have a life raft large enough to carry yourself, the crew, and 15 listed items. You must individually and as a group rank the items by importance for survival. 3) The Coast Guard expert rankings prioritize signaling devices like the mirror and oil/petrol mixture for attracting rescue, followed by water and rations for sustaining life until rescue. Navigation items are less important without relevant tools.

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    1) You are adrift at sea after a fire on your private yacht destroyed much of the boat and navigation equipment, leaving your location unknown around 1000 miles from land. 2) You have a life raft large enough to carry yourself, the crew, and 15 listed items. You must individually and as a group rank the items by importance for survival. 3) The Coast Guard expert rankings prioritize signaling devices like the mirror and oil/petrol mixture for attracting rescue, followed by water and rations for sustaining life until rescue. Navigation items are less important without relevant tools.

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    1) You are adrift at sea after a fire on your private yacht destroyed much of the boat and navigation equipment, leaving your location unknown around 1000 miles from land. 2) You have a life raft large enough to carry yourself, the crew, and 15 listed items. You must individually and as a group rank the items by importance for survival. 3) The Coast Guard expert rankings prioritize signaling devices like the mirror and oil/petrol mixture for attracting rescue, followed by water and rations for sustaining life until rescue. Navigation items are less important without relevant tools.

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    Lost at Sea Instructions 8-19-2015

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    1) You are adrift at sea after a fire on your private yacht destroyed much of the boat and navigation equipment, leaving your location unknown around 1000 miles from land. 2) You have a life raft large enough to carry yourself, the crew, and 15 listed items. You must individually and as a group rank the items by importance for survival. 3) The Coast Guard expert rankings prioritize signaling devices like the mirror and oil/petrol mixture for attracting rescue, followed by water and rations for sustaining life until rescue. Navigation items are less important without relevant tools.

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    The passage discusses rankings for items important to survival after being stranded at sea. Signaling devices and sources of water are most critical. Navigation equipment is less important with no way to navigate.

    According to the experts, the top 3 items for survival are a shaving mirror, 10 liter can of oil/petrol mixture, and 25 liter container of water.

    A sextant is ranked low because it is useless without the relevant tables and a chronometer to take accurate readings for navigation when stranded in the middle of the ocean with no way to reach land.

    Lost at Sea

    Situation
    You are adrift on a private yacht in the South Pacific. As a consequence of a fire of unknown
    origin, much of the yacht and its contents have been destroyed. The yacht is now slowly sinking.
    Your location is unclear because of the destruction of critical navigational equipment and
    because you and the crew were distracted trying to bring the fire under control. Your best
    estimate is that you are approximately one thousand miles south-southwest of the nearest land.

    Below is a list of fifteen items that are intact and undamaged after the fire. In addition to these
    articles, you have a serviceable, rubber life raft with oars large enough to carry yourself, the
    crew, and all the items listed below. The total contents of all survivors’ pockets are a package of
    cigarettes, several books of matches, and five one-dollar bills.

    Your task is to rank the fifteen items below in terms of their importance to your survival. Place
    the number 1 by the most important item, the number 2 by the second most important, and so
    on through number 15, the least important. You will do this twice: once alone (10 min.) and
    once as a group (20 min.).

    Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5


    Items Your Your Team Coast Guard Difference Difference
    Individual Ranking Ranking between between
    Ranking Step 1 & 3 Step 2 & 3
    Sextant
    Shaving Mirror
    Mosquito Netting
    25 liter container of Water
    Case of Army Rations
    Maps of the Pacific Ocean
    Floating Seat Cushion
    10 liter can of Oil/Petrol mixture
    Small Transistor Radio
    20 sq. ft. of opaque Plastic Sheeting
    Can of Shark Repellent
    One bottle rubbing alcohol
    15 ft. of Nylon Rope
    2 boxes of Chocolate Bars
    An ocean Fishing Kit & Pole
    TOTALS Your Score Team Score
    INSTRUCTIONS
    Lost at Sea
    1) Provide a Lost at Sea ranking chart for every member of your group.

    2) Ask each person to take 10 minutes to decide their own rankings, and record the
    choices in the left-hand Step 1 column.

    3) Invite everyone to get into teams of 3-5. Encourage the group to discuss their
    individual choices and work together to agree on a collaborative list. Allow 20
    minutes for this section. Each group records their rankings in the Step 2 column
    (team rankings).

    4) The correct answers were suggested by the US Coast Guard. Display the ‘expert’
    rankings on the PowerPoint presentation, whiteboard or photocopy. Have
    groups list the scores in Step 3.

    5) Groups compare individual and group answers with the correct answers and
    determine a score. For each item, mark the number of points that your score
    differs from the Coast Guard ranking and then add up all the points. Disregard
    plus or minus differences. The lower the total, the better your score.

    6) As the groups work together, sharing thoughts and ideas, this should produce an
    improved score over the individual results. Discuss with your group why the
    scores were different. What changed their minds? And was this enough to
    survive.
    Expert Analysis
    According to the “experts,” the basic supplies needed when a person is stranded in mid-
    ocean are articles to attract attention and articles to aid survival until rescue arrives.

    Articles for navigation are of little importance since even if a small life raft were capable
    of reaching land, it would be impossible to store enough food and water to survive for
    that amount of time. Without signaling devices, there is almost no chance of being
    spotted and rescued.

    Coast
    Item Guard Reasoning
    Ranking
    Sextant 15 Useless without the relevant tables & a chronometer.
    Of all the items, the mirror is absolutely critical. It is the most
    powerful tool you have for communicating your presence. In
    Shaving Mirror 1 sunlight, a simple mirror can generate five to seven million
    candlepower of light. The reflected sunbeam can even be
    seen beyond the horizon.
    Mosquito Netting 14 There are NO mosquitos in the middle of the ocean.
    Vital to restore fluids lost through perspiration. Quantity will
    25 liter container of Water 3 supply rations for your group for several days.
    Case of Army Rations 4 This is your basic food intake.
    Maps of the Pacific Ocean 13 Worthless without navigation equipment
    Floating Seat Cushion 9 Useful as a life preserver if someone fell overboard.
    2nd most critical item for signaling. The mixture will float on
    10 liter can of Oil/Petrol mixture 2 water & can be ignited using the matches.
    Small Transistor Radio 12 You would be out of range of any radio station.
    Can be used to collect rain water & shelter from wind &
    20 sq. ft. of opaque Plastic Sheeting 5 waves.
    Can of Shark Repellent 10 Obvious!
    Can be used as an antiseptic for any injuries. Not to be
    One bottle of Rubbing Alcohol 11 ingested as it will cause dehydration.
    Could be used to lash people or equipment together to
    15 ft. of Nylon Rope 8 prevent being washed overboard. There are a variety of other
    uses but non high on the list for survival.
    2 boxes of Chocolate Bars 6 Your reserve food supply.
    Ranked lower than chocolate as there is no guarantee you’ll
    An ocean Fishing Kit & Pole 7 catch fish. Pole could be used as a tent pole.
    Scores

    00 - 25 Excellent You demonstrated great survival skills. Rescued!

    26 - 32 Good Above average results. Good survival skills. Rescued!

    33 - 45 Average Seasick, hungry and tired. Rescued!

    46 - 55 Fair Dehydrated and barely alive. It was tough, but rescued!

    56 - 70 Poor Rescued, but only just in time!


    Oh dear, your empty raft is washed up on a beach, weeks
    71+ Very Poor after the search was called off.

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