In class we pretended like we were stuck in the middle of the Pacific Sea and we had to rank 15 items in order of what we thought was the most important, 1 being the most important. Then we compared it to what the coast guards said and saw how many we got right.
I thought that the #1 choice for being stuck out there would be water because you can not even think about being rescued if you do not have any water with you. My #2 pick was a small transistor radio because I thought that if you had one of those you could hear the coordinates to where they were searching and you could try to paddle in the direction that they said. I had trouble choosing where the oil would go because it really depends if you are trying to get rescued or trying to stay alive.
Our group chose the route of trying to be rescued more than trying to stay alive. We all agreed on water being the primary source that we would need. The group had oil ranked different me.
My choices differed a lot from the coasts guards. There were big surprises because they had a shaving mirror ranked first because they said its most important for trying to get someones attention when you are trying to get rescued. I never thought that it would of been the most important. I would put more weight in experimental data because it's actually proof, not an opinion.
