Survival at Sea

When posed the question what was most important to save in the event of a shipwreck, we were asked to choose from 15 items and number them in order of importance. Then get together in groups and collaboratively decide on what the whole believed what the most important items were.I chose Water and Army Rations as my top moost important items. I chose water because it is the most necessary component to surviving longer periods of time. With water one can survive longer in order to be found. Same as the Army food Rations, they come with necessary food and items that can help on preserve themselve longer in order to be found. My bottom two least important items included the maps of the Pacific Ocean and the Sextant. Both seem to be great items to keep, however due to my lack of knowledge of how to use a sextant and the location of where I am in the ocean would make the Sextant and Maps practically useless. I had a hard time in choosing the importance of survival items vs. items that would help get me rescued. In example I couldn't decide whter or not I should put the shaving mirror or Water first. Shaving mirror could help me signal planes or ships however if I didnt ave water I could only do that for a few days. With the water I could survive longer however there wouldnt be a very efficent way to signal for help.
      When paired in the team we came up with our top choices to be the Water and the shaving mirror as the top two choices. We were pretty unanimous about the decision because we all agreed that we needed to survive(water) and be able to signal for help (shaving mirror). For our bottom choices  we selected the Maps and the Sextant for the same reasons that I had chose them as my bottom choices.


















The choice of the Coast Guard was not all too suprising because it seems that they came down to the same two choices of whether to save items of survival or  rescue. The Coast Guard chose  The shaving mirror and Petrol oil as the two most important. Their plan is clearly aimed towards the rescue, using the shaving mirror during the da and te petrol oil for signaling at night which would be great if you were rescued quickly. However if rescue takes too long it may result in ones death without the tools for survival (Water Food).

Units

l (distance) = m

t (time) = s

m (mass) = kg

a (area) = m^2

v (velocity) = m/s

P(density) = Kg/m^3

g (gravity) = m/s^2

F (force) = KgM/S^2

E (energy) = KgM^2/S^2

P (power) = KgM^2/S^3

Team Building exercise #1 1/25/11

Today in Engineering we began by doing  a team building exercise in which we had two teams of ten. The rules to the exercise was to at first, get the ball to touch everyone in the circle. My team, which was team #1 approached the excercise by first brainstorming ways to accomplish the goal. In group one we discovered that being in a circle was the best approach to the issue. Next, we found if we all went hands in at the same time and dropped the ball on the groups hands we could simultaneous give the ball to everyone at one time. Using this technique we one 2 out of 3 times which led to us winning the 1st Team exercise.